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Example sentences for "shotguns"

Lexicographically close words:
shot; shote; shotes; shoteth; shotgun; shoto; shots; shott; shotte; shotted
  1. The use of machine shotguns in hunting should be stopped, at once.

  2. Bar the use in hunting of the odious automatic and pump shotguns that are now so generally in use all over the United States to the great detriment of the game and the people.

  3. All over southern Canada the use of automatic shotguns in hunting is strictly prohibited.

  4. In 1906 the Lewis and Clark Club condemned the use of automatic shotguns as unsportsmanlike.

  5. The automatic and pump shotguns when used in hunting are a disgrace to Wyoming, as they are to other states, and should be suppressed; and the silencer for use in hunting is in the black list.

  6. The use of all machine shotguns in hunting should be prohibited.

  7. In 1912 Commissioner Napier won a pitched battle with the makers of automatic and pump guns, both shotguns and rifles, and debarred all those weapons from use in hunting in New Jersey unless satisfactorily reduced to two shots.

  8. In the early days, shotguns were few, and shot was scarce and dear.

  9. In 1906, this Club condemned the use of automatic shotguns in hunting as unsportsmanlike.

  10. Very soon, also, her sportsmen will raise the standard of ethics in shotgun shooting, by barring out the automatic and pump shotguns so much beloved by the market shooters.

  11. The use of the machine shotguns in hunting should be stopped.

  12. But, outside the ranks of sportsmen, we are now face to face with two automatic and five "pump" shotguns of deadly efficiency.

  13. Alcorn, Dahlgreen, and O'Farrel were to superintend the collection of these deadly shotguns in their respective departments, and I was ordered to write out instructions for their guidance.

  14. Where are his double-barrel shotguns to ambuscade the Yankees?

  15. Floyd, and I don't want any Northern writer to accuse him of having sent these shotguns privately to aid "rebellion.

  16. About a mile farther on he was stopped by a number of men armed with shotguns (in quest of stragglers), farmers in the neighborhood, who also inquired who he was and where he was going.

  17. The two boys with the shotguns went in advance, and soon reached a point where they could look beyond the bushes.

  18. They obtained permission to take two small rifles and two double-barreled shotguns belonging to the institution, and these they cleaned and oiled so that they would be in prime condition.

  19. Then, just as Andy had handed back one of the shotguns to Jack and the weapon had been reloaded, they heard a strange noise coming from back of some bushes not a great distance away.

  20. Shotguns and revolvers in plenty are to be found in the cabins of the colored country folk.

  21. The forest is very dense, and Negroes with shotguns are potting at wild birds from the highway.

  22. All the boys with shotguns blazed away, and four of the rabbits dropped in their tracks.

  23. All of the young sportsmen were armed with shotguns and they also took along Mr. Dodge's rifle, as they had done before, and the trusty pistol belonging to Doctor Reed.

  24. Then both young hunters brought around their shotguns and aimed at the big bear.

  25. Again those carrying shotguns discharged their fowling pieces, and down came three of the largest of the squirrels.

  26. Without delay Snap, Shep and Giant brought their shotguns around in position to fire.

  27. They were soon on the way, Snap, Shep and Giant with their shotguns and Whopper with the rifle.

  28. Dick Comstock was working his shotguns with lightning rapidity, and clouds of dust flew up from the plain as the buckshot sprayed about among the fleeing men.

  29. He saw a boy in a cap, with a pistol in one hand and a strapped set of books in the other, come running up to the men with the shotguns and he heard one of them say angrily: "I told you not to come.

  30. I'll get even with you fer this some day"--and then the prisoner's eyes caught the horses and shotguns and turned to the group of Falins and he shrank back utterly dazed.

  31. You go out and get as many shotguns as you can find and load them with buckshot.

  32. They've got the law and the shotguns on us, an' I reckon we'd better go slow.

  33. Dick shouldered one of the shotguns and went down to the lake.

  34. The extra weapons, including the shotguns and shot cartridges, they hid with their furs.

  35. And they've got four sawed-off shotguns and a tommy-gun in the back seat.

  36. And when they get you guys in the hospital there ain't one of you knows anything about four sawed-off shotguns and a tommy gun in the car with you.

  37. They were not allowed to go down this ramp; guards with shotguns refused to allow any ingress.

  38. From his left two figures closed in, shotguns half raised.

  39. I had explained to my friend that in his modern world of America these same people would come out after us with shotguns loaded with rock salt.

  40. Unlimited frosted cakes and shotguns had not taught Burke Denby to accept no for an answer--especially for an answer to something he had so set his heart upon as he had this winning of Helen Barnet for his wife.

  41. Were the men with the shotguns part of it?

  42. But they held their shotguns poised and ready for action.

  43. He displayed a pair of sawed-off shotguns the stocks of which were hinged in such a manner that the weapons could be doubled into a length of perhaps eighteen inches and thus be concealed upon the person.

  44. We were to spend a day or two at Lyman Lake, and the sportsmen were busy by the camp-fire that evening, getting rifles and shotguns in order and preparing fishing-tackle.

  45. Then they played cards till midnight, turned in for a little sleep, and turned out again in the black morning to go to their places with repeating shotguns and cripple-killer rifles in their hands.

  46. They sat there with rifles or shotguns between their knees, with their pistols on their hips, and eternal vigilance in their eyes.

  47. Bird shot--same as you've been a-usin' in them shotguns of yourn.

  48. We found the shotguns that were used on those cows!

  49. After that the teacher took up the narrative, ending with the finding of the shotguns in the beds.

  50. What was your object in taking two of our shotguns from the gun rack and going over to Mr. Lacy's farm and shooting down two of his cows?

  51. The boys' shotguns and game had been taken from the farm wagon, and now the pair from the Lacy farm drove away.

  52. I saw them down near the gymnasium, and sneaked up behind them, and by rare good luck heard them talking about two shotguns that belonged in the gun rack.

  53. The little local dealers were promised a profit on all such spoils sent by them to the great city dealers, and they had set the men with the shotguns at work.

  54. The first volley from the shotguns laid one of the deer low, while a second was slightly wounded, and began to limp away.

  55. Most of the Missourians were armed with ordinary shotguns and hunting-rifles; consequently they could not have attempted a bayonet charge, even though other circumstances had permitted one.

  56. We did n't see anybody until we got pretty near the battlefield, and then we came upon a picket of fellows in butternut clothes and armed with shotguns and squirrel rifles.

  57. They were of very little use, as they were mostly shotguns and squirrel-rifles.

  58. From what the soldiers said, I'm certain that this is what caused several regiments to break and run after they had fired only a few rounds from their shotguns and squirrel-rifles.

  59. But even before they arrived the Chief would lead the powerhouse crew ashore armed with the shotguns they kept for shooting waterfowl in and out of season.

  60. The other men returned to the powerhouse with their shotguns and the fire axe, and telephoned to Bootstrap.

  61. We must carry our shotguns along with us, and a few ducks as circumstantial evidence.

  62. A couple of shotguns and our hunting licenses will be all the alibi we'll need.

  63. Armed in this way, each could fire many shots in rapid succession, instead of the two which alone their shotguns permitted.

  64. Were there any officers with shotguns near Oswald when he was struggling with these other officers?

  65. Did you see any men with shotguns in the theatre?

  66. Two magazine shotguns and two target rifles exploded in quick succession.

  67. They brought with them not only four mattresses, but the shotguns and rifles shipped by the boys from the academy for their mid-winter hunting.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shotguns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.