How to Use run-and-gun in a Sentence

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• The Canucks are in the infancy of their rebuild, so a pair of run-and-gun games made sense.
  — Janson Duench, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
• Ohs still brought the same run-and-gun, video-making, improv ethos to the larger-scale (for him) film, though.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026
• Some items were smashed and shattered when the museum’s grounds became a run-and-gun battlefield.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
• Carlsson was a game-breaker off the rush and excelled under Joel Quenneville’s new run-and-gun playing style.
  — Harman Dayal, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
• Moe helped pioneer a run-and-gun style of offense that often produced final scores in the 120s and beyond.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2026
• Perhaps the best pure scorer in the state, Williams shot 42% from 3 and his run-and-gun style had opposing defenses reeling.
  — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2026
• Panahi, while a guest on this week’s episode of the Toolkit podcast, discussed his run-and-gun shooting process and his comfort level working with untrained actors under these conditions.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
• The defensive issues aren’t just related to poor play by the blueliners and the team’s run-and-gun style under first-year coach Joel Quenneville, which often leads to chances being traded.
  — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
• This generation’s Pacers, with a run-and-gun offense led by the trash-talking Tyrese Haliburton, eliminated the Knicks in six games.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
• The up-tempo, run-and-gun offense made the team Hollywood stars, helped furnish The Forum with five championship banners and pushed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the top of the all-time scoring list.
  — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 17 June 2026
• Some successful military shooters like The Division might periodically scratch the itch, but not since the early days of Battlefield has there been any meaningful alternative to the mindless run-and-gun antics of Black Ops.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
• During the season, coach Bort Escoto changed his team’s offense, switching to run-and-gun style put in by Paul Westhead years ago at Loyola Marymount and now the Spartans are in the Division V regional final.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026