Smoothbore firearm which can fire one or more projectiles in a single firing.
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Examples for "shotgun "
Examples for "shotgun "
1 Police say the student who opened fire was armed with a shotgun .
2 My plasma shotgun weighs sixty-three pounds, far too heavy to use unarmored.
3 Norrie continues her shotgun approach, taking Iceland but leaving Greenland heavily reinforced.
4 They said he used a shotgun but did not give further details.
5 Thoughts were that it would continue along that single barrel shotgun theme.
1 Newcomers more likely to be met by shotguns than by open arms.
2 Owners of rifles and shotguns do not need permits, the newspaper said.
3 The shop will provide background checks and shotguns , said owner Tommy Rompel.
4 Mr Greene says two shotguns were among items located during the searches.
5 One had a handgun and the others shotguns , a Garda spokesman said.
1 There's two benefits to going deep rather than employing a scattergun approach.
2 As scattergun summer splurges go Spurs 2013 hardly stands out these days.
3 Olive used her scattergun method of treating pleural pneumonia, and it worked.
4 Sterling has gone from scattergun left-winger to fluid and adaptable world-class forward.
5 You'll put that scattergun down and come along with me'n my sisters.
1 Helen Spratt was there, holding an old fowling piece .
2 Accordingly, arming myself with a pistol a fowling piece , powder and ball, I ascended the mountain.
3 I'm getting Harry back. She leveled her fowling piece at Nev's face from two feet away.
4 Mr. Duke asked, touching my fowling piece .
5 Meanwhile, Mr. Toley and his companion had each taken a fowling piece and gone away with the landlord.
6 My bedroom furniture consisted of a truss of hay, a lantern, a tinder-box, and a rusty fowling piece .
7 My fowling piece was now hung up in the barn, and few were my opportunities of taking it down.
8 He staggered to the wagon and got out his fowling piece , and said he was going to try me.
9 As if to disencumber himself, he threw his game bag and valuable fowling piece to the old man, saying:
10 For a man of Temple's kidney to be without a fowling piece was like a king being without a crown.
11 The leaves parted; and a man of some sixty years of age, armed with an old double-barreled fowling piece , stepped out.
12 As soon as the two men appeared, he raised the fowling piece to his shoulder and fired both barrels, in quick succession.
13 A third rider waved a long crazy-looking fowling piece , the barrel bound to the splintered stock with bits of wire and string.
14 Washington reports in full the case of a boy of eleven, who, in handing a fowling piece across a ditch, was accidentally shot.
15 He took out a fowling piece , loaded it carefully with the powder and shot that the locker furnished in abundance and waited his time.
16 Adam touched his hat as he rode up the sweeping drive, and noticed that there was a long fowling piece propped against the barrow.
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