carbine

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Recent Examples of carbine So, please, don't shoot my eye out with an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot range model air rifle! Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024 This futuristic-looking, semiautomatic pistol calibre carbine required no regulated components and was fully DIY. Rajan Basra, WIRED, 5 July 2024 Winchester chambering was added in 1966 and the carbine model in ’67. Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024 As such, one of the silent auction items up for grabs that night was something that to a beer drinker is what an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle was to Ralphie. Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 4 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for carbine
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Noun
  • At the scene of the apparent assassination attempt, officials found the rifle, a black backpack and a bag containing ceramic tile, and a GoPro camera.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 12 July 2025
  • Six days later, Blanchard was assaulted outside a party on Westwood Northern Boulevard and went inside to get a rifle, prosecutors said.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • When the occupants of the boat refused to surrender, the crew fired warning shots with a shotgun and then fired pepper-ball rounds onto the skiff, the Coast Guard reported.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • Mary Winkler, wife to the town’s Fourth Street Church of Christ minister Matthew Winkler, had shot her husband in the back with a shotgun in their bedroom, killing him.
    Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.
    Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.
    Hannah Marcus, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2020
Noun
  • On April 19, 1775, the crack of a musket marked the first official command for colonists to fire upon the red-coated army of Britain’s King George III.
    Lisa Meyers McClintick, USA Today, 21 June 2025
  • Depictions of Warren tend to show him in military uniform, with a sword or a musket.
    Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • One of the men shot an AK-47 through the officer’s window, wounding him.
    Longreads, Longreads, 8 July 2025
  • The day before the murders, Bell accompanied Williams to buy an AK-47, magazine devices and bullets.
    Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The 34-year-old man and his 25-year-old girlfriend, both Oakland residents, were charged with being felons in possession of firearms, possessing a machine gun, and possessing property that was stolen from the U.S. Coast Guard in Oakland, court records show.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 4 July 2025
  • Most notably, the engine compartment has been reinforced with armor to better withstand machine gun fire.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 June 2025
  • Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Carbine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbine. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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