How to Use silencer in a Sentence

silencer

noun
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  • Paul Ryan says there are no plans to bring a gun silencer bill to the floor.
    — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The SIM card slot, volume down, volume up and the silencer are all on the left side.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The silencer was fashioned from an oil can, the sheriff said.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The volume up, volume down, sound silencer and SIM card slot are all found on the left side.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The power button and SIM card slot are on the right, while the volume silencer and rocker are on the right.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Mini is home to the SIM card slot, volume up, volume down and the silencer switch.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Peter Van Sant: He's asked Yura to help him get a gun with a silencer.
    — CBS News, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Five shots were fired from a pistol fitted with a silencer.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Write down the targets, draw up plans and booby trap the roads, lay down [roadside bombs], and spread out snipers and kill with silencers.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Black because we’re done being silenced and we’re done with the silencers.
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Jake Wagner bought a silencer in March 2016 and bought parts to build silencers.
    — Chris Graves, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2016
  • The bill would have restricted the ability of states and cities to regulate the sales of firearm silencers.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Through the dark Web, Fenech tried to buy cyanide and a pistol with a silencer, but neither transaction went through.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • One of the five firearms belonging to the killers was also fitted with a homemade silencer.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The silencer lacked a serial number, as required by the NFA.
    — Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The silencer on the gun in the photo is actually a Pat McGrath lipstick that Swift is known to wear.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The silencer on the gun in the photo is actually a Pat McGrath lipstick that Swift is known to wear.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The police also found, in a van parked outside the store, a Ruger Mark IV pistol with a homemade silencer.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Robert Lyons, 32, possessed and made firearm silencers in violation of the law, the news release said.
    — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 23 June 2017
  • That gun, which had a long silencer attached, was found when police searched the home, alongside a Glock handgun and about three pounds of cannabis.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 20 Jan. 2022
  • One soldier drew his pistol and fitted it with a silencer.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Steven Carrillo slid open the van door and readied his rifle, equipped with a silencer.
    — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 July 2022
  • One of his sons has voiced strong support for easing the restrictions on gun silencers.
    — Lisa Marie Pane and Emily Swanson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Gemtech, based in Eagle, is one of the world’s leading companies for design and sales of gun silencers.
    — Ruth Brown, idahostatesman, 7 July 2017
  • If the firearm possessed is a machine gun, or is equipped with a firearm silencer, then the imprisonment is no less than 30 years.
    — John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 31 May 2023
  • And at the vendor expo, where guns, scopes and silencers are displayed like jewelry, weapons of war are fetishized.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Police recovered two hunters’ knives and a silencer from the victim.
    — Michael Nichols, National Geographic, 21 Feb. 2016
  • Krasikov then got off his bike and stood over Khangoshvili to deliver a final shot to the head with his 9mm Glock 26 pistol equipped with a silencer.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • When the silencer is silenced, raucous hair growth occurs.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 9 May 2018
  • The six silencers also were not registered, according to officials.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2024

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