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Example sentences for "holster"

Lexicographically close words:
holpe; holped; holpen; holsom; holsome; holstered; holsters; holts; holy; holyday
  1. Philip drew his frozen revolver from its holster and held it over the stove.

  2. Replacing his revolver in its holster he rose above the rocks, ready to swing the rifle to his shoulder.

  3. His feet were snugly encased in a pair of shining riding boots, and he wore a pearl handled revolver in a dainty holster strapped to his belt.

  4. With his remaining strength he managed to work it free from the holster and brought the butt crashing down on the dwarf's head.

  5. He also noticed, as the man's coat brushed against a chair as he sat down, that that same coat covered a shiny black shoulder holster in which gleamed the worn butt of an automatic pistol.

  6. He drew Winthrop's gun from its holster and inspected it, shaking his head as he slid it back again.

  7. Gents that handle their guns like they was born with a holster on the hip.

  8. And as he spoke he slipped on a belt at which a heavy holster tugged down on one side, and buckled it around him.

  9. At this Donnegan's protector shifted his belt so that the holster came a little more forward on his thigh.

  10. But in the crisis, automatically Donnegan flipped his useless revolver out of its holster and into his hand.

  11. He touched the holster that held his empty gun--and waited!

  12. The gun in that holster ain't loaded," he said.

  13. This so incensed the soldier, that he instantly pulled out his holster pistol, and shot the poor half-witted creature through the head.

  14. In an instant after, the house was surrounded, and armed men, with swords and holster pistols, rushed into the house of this poor unprotected woman.

  15. He did not even think of the second revolver in the holster at his side.

  16. He caught a dozen young frogs among the sedges in the marshy stretch at the north end of the landing-beach, and confined them in the only available receptacle, the holster of his automatic.

  17. But even as her hand jerked at the butt of the automatic, in its rawhide holster on her hip, an overmastering force flung them both forward into the foul dark of the round dungeon.

  18. They planned the holster together, and he cut it out with his knife, while she slit leather thongs to lash it with.

  19. He snatched his automatic from its holster on his hip and as the plane swept past the beach, down-stream, let fly a spatter of steel jacketed souvenirs at the fast-thickening pack on the sand.

  20. The tablet on his belt, Pelton knew, was really a camouflaged holster for a small automatic, and the gold stylus was a gas-projector.

  21. Then he buckled on a Sam Browne with its tablet holster and stylus gas projector.

  22. Slipping a small gun into his waistband holster and pocketing the money he went out.

  23. When you get the chance," Jason said, "you'll have to show me how that trick holster works.

  24. He dropped his arm carefully and Kerk flipped his own gun back in the holster with the same ease he had drawn it.

  25. The movement of gun from holster to hand was too fast for him to detect.

  26. His gun was still working, it dipped in and out of the power holster as he thought about it.

  27. Reading the figures from his list he selected various components from bins and quickly assembled a power holster and gun.

  28. It had an infuriating way of vanishing into the holster just as he was about to pull the trigger.

  29. With the holster strapped to his forearm and the gun in his hand, Jason noticed for the first time they were connected by a flexible cable.

  30. His arms and legs were tied, the power holster ripped from his arm.

  31. Before Jason could get his gun clear of the holster Kerk was in front of him.

  32. I therefore command you to return your six-shooter to the holster from which you have taken it.

  33. Each revolver, too, he withdrew from its holster and examined closely.

  34. As good guns were difficult to obtain there, and we had some extra weapons, one of our party loaned the doctor an improved Henry rifle and holster revolvers.

  35. One hand of the huntress held out a holster revolver, which she fired occasionally, but with uncertain aim, one of the bullets indeed whistling our way.

  36. Every one in the party was firing, some having dropped their reins to use their carbines, and others yet guiding their horses with one hand, while they fired their holster revolvers with the other.

  37. The rider may then draw his holster revolvers in succession, and after using them, have left a carbine reserve for any emergency.

  38. Of course you're broken in to the country, but as you know a new belt and holster are apt to be viewed with suspicion and a gentleman sometimes has to draw when he'd rather not, to prove himself.

  39. That's the favorite holster gun in use out here.

  40. I saw him give a twitch to his holster and slightly loosen the Colt's.

  41. And while their ears are dazzled by me melody I'm goin' to git me holster unbottoned and me masheet kinder limbered up.

  42. Up and down, a barely distinguishable figure, Knowlton passed slowly with holster unbuttoned and rifle cocked, eyes turning periodically to the Red Bone outpost and ears intent to pick any unusual sound out of the night noise.

  43. When he attempted to holster his weapon he fumbled three times for the sheath before he found it.

  44. This is likely to be a weapon of large bore and good stopping-power that is worn in a shoulder-holster concealed under the coat or vest or shirt.

  45. We went over there and buried the victims a few days later, during a snow storm, working with our holster flaps unbuttoned.

  46. It just does a flip out of the holster and bang!

  47. Then Perris, at the very door of the hut, dropped the flopping saddle to the ground and the foreman saw that no holster swung at the hip of his man.

  48. And Marianne had to sit back in the saddle and simply pray for time, while the little thirty-two revolver in the saddle holster before her, flapped monotonously, beating out the rhythm of every stride.

  49. For that matter, every man in the party was whipping his rifle out of its holster as Mary raised her field glass hurriedly to study the stranger.

  50. His bullet had to cut through my holster and then it jammed into my thigh bone.

  51. The Mexican jerked Waring's gun from the holster and cocked it.

  52. From buckle to tongue it glittered with cartridges and a service-worn holster bulged with a short-barreled Colt's .

  53. I heard that he wore that holster to th' day th' vigilantes got him, up in Virginia City, Montanny.

  54. Tex dropped his gun back into the holster and went up to the nephew.

  55. A gun in a shoulder holster or a derringer on an elastic up a sleeve might well use such a cartridge.

  56. Tommy sullenly slid the gun back into its holster and walked toward the door, too angry to speak.

  57. Then he turned, slammed the gun back into its holster and stamped toward the hotel; but he stopped in the nearest saloon to give the eavesdropper, if there had been one, a chance to get to the hotel before him.

  58. Jake arose, jammed the gun back into its holster and walked briskly to the door of the flimsy little office, which he found locked against him.

  59. Tex shoved the smoking Colt back into his holster and peered through the acrid, gray fog.

  60. The harness-maker looked from the belt and holster to an up-ended box and waved at the latter.

  61. Over an open vest are the careless folds of a blue kerchief, and at his right hip rubs a holster with its waiting, deadly tenant.

  62. It was so now, and, revolver in hand but hidden beneath my holster flap, I leaned over and touched Craig's arm.

  63. The light from the fire without leaped up, and its glow revealed a saddle, with leather holster attached, hanging to a nail just within the doorway.

  64. Then he crossed over to the old leather holster and picked it up, and stooped for the revolver, and pushed it down in the holster and buckled the cover-flap and tossed the whole thing up to the top of the book-cabinet again.

  65. And he was equally snappy as he flung his ugly old Colt in its ugly old holster up over the top corner of our book-cabinet.

  66. All I know is that holster and belt came tumbling down as I sprang and caught at the Colt handle.

  67. Once when a stranger, a short heavy-set bearded man, had unexpectedly appeared at the door, his father had leaped for the revolver hanging in its holster on the wall.

  68. The latter he drew from the holster and broke open, so that the cartridges were ejected into his hand.

  69. Excusing himself hurriedly, Steele Weir seized his holster from a nail and buckled on the belt.

  70. His right hand was resting on his holster as if but awaiting an excuse to use his gun.

  71. At the same instant his right hand flew to his holster and whipped out his gun.

  72. Next he stopped the engine and put out the lights, then he got out, felt his gun in its holster and gazed ahead for an instant.

  73. He wore a heavy pistol at his right hip, low, the bottom of the holster tied to the leather chaps, and as Corrigan closed the door he noted that the man's right hand lingered close to the butt of the weapon.

  74. If it doesn't work, why then--" He tapped his pistol holster significantly.

  75. Then he ran to where he had left Nigger, leading the animal back into the zig-zag passages, pulling his rifle out of the saddle holster and stationing himself in the shadow of the house in which he had taken Levins.

  76. That was the reason he had been so quiescent this far; it was why he made no objection when Braman passed his hands over his clothing in search of other weapons, after his pistol had been lifted from its holster by the banker.

  77. He had left his sword behind in camp, but his revolver rested in its holster on his right hip.

  78. When he put the holster down, we concluded the fellow had only picked it up in a moment's curiosity.

  79. Had he taken the gun out of the holster we'd have jumped down into the cabin and taken it away from him.

  80. The big man drew a gun from a pocket holster underneath each arm.

  81. Bill immediately disarmed the prostrate figure, taking his pistol from its holster as Hal said: "Don't speak.

  82. She made sure again that it was loaded and buckled the holster about her waist.

  83. Without dismounting she took from the end of a broken branch a revolver in its holster that she had hung there earlier in the day.

  84. Her hand fell on the laden holster at her side with a panic impulse to rush the thing through.

  85. He tied it to his shoulder-holster and set out.

  86. He drew his pistol from the holster with the address of an expert marksman.


  87. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    case; compact; file