Thesaurus results for MACHINE-GUN

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noun

Definition of machine gun

as in machine pistol

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Recent Examples of machine gun

Noun

Federal agents raided a Miami Gardens home this week and found a machine gun-making factory, along with homemade, automatic weapons and devices used to switch semiautomatic weapons to fully-automatic firearms, according to a criminal complaint. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026 Just like in the darnkess cave, the snarling machine gun of thoughts—unanswered emails, to-dos, and angst about my 17 year old’s plans to travel the world alone—slowly fell silent. — Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2026

Verb

As seen in a recent action in Kupiansk, machine-gun robots can provide suppressive fire so the others can get through. — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026 Iranian speed boats raking ships with machine-gun fire in the Strait of Hormuz. — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for machine gun

Recent Examples of Synonyms for machine gun

Noun

One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.

— Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 26 June 2024
Deputies also allegedly found a MAC-10 machine pistol and a 9 mm handgun under the passenger seat.

— Jason Green, The Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2019

Definition of machine pistol

Noun

On the roof, a three-year-old boy from Chile plays with a toy submachine gun, pointing it at anyone who comes within range.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
Police learned Pyles owns a handgun and a submachine gun, according to charging documents.

— Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025

Definition of submachine gun

Verb

There have been sets with three tight ends, formations that start under center and some that use formation shifts to move from a single-back set to shotgun.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Aug. 2026
Westman had decorated the assault rifle and shotgun with hate speech in ways that aligned with the dark underbelly of alt-right meme culture that regularly disparages people of color, Jewish people, the LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities.

— Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025

Definition of shotgun

Noun

Gunfire disrupts the silence as Raya emerges through smoke, armed with a tommy gun.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Gauging from the trailer, this grisly period piece appears to be set in the South with Jordan starring in a dual role as a pair of twins, at least one of whom gets to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun.

— Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025

Definition of tommy gun

Verb

Noguchi, Nakashima, and Amino were adults on February 19, 1942, when President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which forced Japanese American families to quickly abandon or destroy their property and board trains to the holding centers.

— Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
Refineries in Russia have been destroyed or damaged by drone attacks.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of destroy

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Authorities say Ortiz raked Rihanna’s home and an Airstream trailer parked on her Beverly Crest property with bullets from an assault rifle March 8.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
The need for any person to openly brandish a sidearm or a person to carry an assault rifle on his shoulder is absolute insanity.

— Dan Sweeney, Sun Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of assault rifle

Verb

On the politics, his statement summons a legacy-killing disaster by wagering that nothing will go wrong, when something likely will go wrong during his presidency.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, was founded in 1980 by a mother whose 13-year-old daughter was killed by an intoxicated driver.

— Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026

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