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Example sentences for "buckshot"

Lexicographically close words:
buckling; bucko; buckra; buckram; bucks; buckskin; buckskins; buckthorn; buckwheat; bucolic
  1. These words were hardly out of the guard's mouth when the "Kid" fired a charge of buckshot into his heart.

  2. Thu one that were shy was thu feller they found on Hoss Creek a week later with nine buckshot in his rotten heart.

  3. He had seen that expression once before on the face of the wife of the dead sheepman when some one had told her of the finding of a C Bar rider with a load of buckshot through his heart some weeks after the assassination of her husband.

  4. By a lucky chance, rather than by any good marksmanship, Ray's buckshot had taken effect in the right eye, completely destroying that optic, and inflicting intolerable pain.

  5. By mistake Hotenfa had discharged a load of buckshot and it was my bullet which had killed the goral but his joy was so great that I would not for anything have disillusioned him.

  6. We were never within shotgun range and indeed it would be difficult to kill the birds with anything smaller than BB or buckshot unless they were very near.

  7. This was a breechloader, with buckshot cartridges for small antelopes.

  8. He hastened thither and found Wallace breathing his last, with a full charge of buckshot in his stomach.

  9. My rifleball took him in the shoulder, and your charges of buckshot went through the head.

  10. Then a charge of buckshot from Jerry's gun, settled him for good and all, and he rolled over lifeless.

  11. That" was a well-delivered charge of buckshot between the timbers of the cabin.

  12. As soon as he was well clear of the bushes, I fired at him with buckshot and killed him dead.

  13. I loaded my gun with buckshot in one barrel and ball in the other, and remained as quiet as a mouse.

  14. At the report of Trask's gun, the huge mongrel had whirled about, snarling and foaming at the mouth and had snapped savagely at his own shoulder; where a single buckshot had just seared a jagged groove.

  15. An occasional far-off report of a shotgun would be wafted to the Valley below, in token of some quarry trailed to within buckshot range.

  16. Charge after charge of buckshot tore through the flimsy clapboards; the moonlight was brightened by pale flashes, and the timbered hills echoed the cracking shots.

  17. There was a flash from the road and a load of buckshot crashed through the window overhead.

  18. With an oath Tansey flung up his gun and drove a charge of buckshot crashing through the front door.

  19. This weapon had a funnel-shaped barrel, a flint lock, took about half a pint of buckshot for a charge, and was capable of destroying a whole band of robbers at once.

  20. If he gets a bullet and three loads of buckshot in his head, he'll not growl at us any more.

  21. One bullet and three loads of buckshot will be more than he can carry away with him.

  22. When David had driven home a good-sized charge of buckshot and placed a cap upon his gun, he leaned the weapon against the thwart upon which he was sitting and picked up the oars.

  23. Quickly throwing open his breech-loader, he slipped a ball cartridge into one barrel and a heavy charge of buckshot into the other.

  24. It was as much as Phil could do, lying on the sofa, to send a buckshot through the open window without hitting the panes above, but Stuart cut a berry neatly from the vine at each trial.

  25. A round black hole the size of the buckshot gaped in the middle of the old-ancestor's eye-ball, as clean cut as if it had been made with a punch.

  26. They used buckshot to shoot with, nipping up a shot in the middle of the band with thumb and finger, and drawing it back as far as possible before letting it fly.

  27. The buckshot seemed to leap from the rubber of its own accord, and Stuart fell back, frightened by what he had done.

  28. He felt sure of at least winging the satanic thief, for he had scratched a cross on every buckshot in the load.

  29. The stock was broken, one of the hammers struck upon a log and a load of buckshot went whistling through the leaves of our tree.

  30. It was a big muzzle-loading musket, with a bore as big as an eight-gauge shotgun, and Taylor loaded it with a double handful of powder, thirty buckshot and a wagon bolt six inches long.

  31. As the bear scrambled down, Zeke aimed just under his shoulder and sent two handsful of buckshot careering through his vitals in a diagonal line.

  32. Say, who chucked that buckshot down into my engine room?

  33. It was pretty shooting and the wicked little shells ripped through the old Maggie like buckshot through a roll of butter.

  34. She did--with a crack that shook the rigging and caused it to rattle like buckshot in a pan.

  35. The fourteen buckshot were found in the undischarged pistol and the seventeen in Choron's body.

  36. He thought he knew where to find her, so he took down his holster pistols, loaded them, put fourteen buckshot in one and seventeen in the other.

  37. Must have been buckshot and we were so close it didn't have a chance to scatter.

  38. If those shells were loaded with buckshot you'd be all right," said Billie.

  39. Some carried shot guns and cartridges stuffed with buckshot and some poured in buckshot by the handful.

  40. Mr. Wilbur, one of the neighbors, had watched from his barn and fired a charge of buckshot at it; but immediately the creature had disappeared in the darkness, carrying off a lamb.

  41. He won't jump much with seven buckshot and a ball in him!

  42. I gave him another shot, which struck him in the chest and turned him, when Pecetti gave him sixteen buckshot in the shoulder from his big double-barrel, which brought him down, dying bravely in defence of his family.

  43. I will give them enough buckshot to make them jump.

  44. My pouch was filled with buckshot cartridges.

  45. Realizing that he must be the man they were searching for, he jammed home the breech-block, cocked his rifle, and let the stranger have the charge of buckshot in the head, dropping him dead.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buckshot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ball; buckshot; bullet; cannonball; grapeshot; pellet; shell; shot; shrapnel; slug; tracer