How to Use air gun in a Sentence

air gun

noun
Definition of air gunnext
  • Two men, ages 22 and 37, were cited for firing an air gun in the city.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Kline told the court that Hall threatened Smith by holding an air gun to the back of her head.
    — kansascity, 17 Feb. 2015
  • The plan is to use nets, hooks and air guns several nights a month over three or four years.
    — Jane Braxton Little, sacbee, 20 Jan. 2018
  • To get more details on air guns, visit https://gamousa.com or https://www.daisy.com.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 15 Dec. 2019
  • There are two main types of air gun projectiles: BBs and pellets.
    — Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The gun was determined to be a soft air gun that the woman was returning to Amazon.
    — cleveland, 5 July 2022
  • And use an air gun to blow away dust and dirt, especially from around the gauges, couplers, and pump motor.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Workers also scared away two crows seen in the grassy area on the north end of the airport by firing an air gun, according to the report.
    — Hannah Fry, latimes.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Toward the back of the bench rests a hot-air gun and a soldering station, as well as my bag of other electrical tools.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 July 2021
  • There are plenty of options out there, from air guns to .22s, but single-shot rifles are always a smart choice.
    — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 21 May 2020
  • In the case of the Roma child, police concluded she was shot by an air gun that an Italian man fired from his balcony.
    — Frances D'emilio, Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • Walters planned to descend by popping some of the balloons with an air gun, but it was lost shortly into his flight.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 18 Oct. 2020
  • He was located and admitted to shooting at targets in his front yard with an air gun.
    — cleveland, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The police department said residents have been shot by splat guns, a toy air gun that shoots a gel projectile.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 9 May 2022
  • Officers found a group of people one of whom had an air gun, which uses springs or compressed air to fire projectiles.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Oil and gas exploration crews often use seismic air guns to search for fossil fuels under the seabed.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
  • Her team towed a large air gun behind a research vessel, blasting the seafloor with seismic waves that would bounce back, revealing a clearer picture of the crater.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Also missing were air guns, an air compressor, pneumatic tools and used oil cans.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Several arrests were made at the scene and officers were forced to shoot pepper balls from a high-velocity air gun.
    — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al, 2 June 2020
  • But a nasty feud erupted between Shoob and the district attorney’s office in March 2015 in a trial against a man charged with using an air gun to commit a robbery.
    — Bill Rankin, ajc, 8 June 2018
  • DeLay found the first reference to the air gun in Lewis and Clark’s journals, which described how they were greeted by white settlers on their travels who wanted to learn how to use the unusual weapon.
    — oregonlive, 8 June 2023
  • For roughly twenty-four hours after hearing the ship and the air gun, Nemo did not vocalize or, perhaps critically, hunt or eat.
    — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Essentially, a pellet rifle is anything that is designed to shoot a pellet—which includes most air guns.
    — T. Logan Metesh, Field & Stream, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Since there’s no ignition inside an air gun, making one that works properly is easier said than done.
    — T. Logan Metesh, Field & Stream, 4 Oct. 2023
  • In their search of untapped oil deposits, companies increasingly rely on survey vessels that pound the seabed with air guns.
    — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The gun authorities recovered during a search of the car turned out to be an air gun that looked realistic, the district attorney’s office said.
    — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Only a relative few of Texas’ million-plus hunters could be expected to take advantage of the opportunity to use air guns or air bows.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 6 May 2018
  • Often resembling actual guns, the low-power air guns are designed to shoot projectiles made of plastic or resin.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Police recovered an air gun that resembled a Glock handgun.
    — Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The air gun, detonating generally once every eighty seconds, could be heard by the whales as far away as twenty kilometers or more in some instances, and the sound could bend around islands.
    — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021

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