How to Use assault rifle in a Sentence

assault rifle

noun

• The sheriff said the assault rifle was used in the shooting.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 July 2023
• One man held an assault rifle above his head, walked forward and placed a gun on the ground.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• One of the men strode up, raised an assault rifle and fired a few rounds toward the Israelis.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Trump was nicked in the ear after Crooks fired an AR-style assault rifle.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 23 July 2024
• Paul had been shot in the head and chest with a shotgun and his mother was killed with an assault rifle.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• One hand is thrown into the air in a Nazi salute, the other clutches an assault rifle.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• The video shows the Palestinian man grabbing the officer's assault rifle, which then drops to the ground.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Dec. 2022
• The state banned bump stocks, which can turn an assault rifle into a machine gun.
  — Brittany Wallman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2022
• The bandits at the scene were armed with four AK-47-style assault rifles and an AR-15 assault rifle and had food to last for days.
  — José Ignacio Castañeda Perez, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2022
• Wilson said the amendment changed where the owner of an assault rifle could use it, not whether the person could own the gun.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• One of the men, an assault rifle slung across his back, leaned into her open car window.
  — Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2020
• He is also alleged to have taught Kim A. how to use an assault rifle.
  — David Rising, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• One of the victims was killed with a shotgun and the other with an assault rifle, sources told The Island Packet.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2021
• No one is safe from the surprise carnage caused by assault rifles.
  — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• The visual is worth a watch as well, where an ex pulls up to Vaughn and Choppa’s estate and he’s met face-to-face with an assault rifle.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2024
• At least one of the suspects was wielding an assault rifle, Jordan said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 28 July 2022
• An assault rifle was lying inside the home in plain view through a storm door, police said.
  — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 12 July 2021
• One shooter was armed with an assault rifle, and the other had two handguns.
  — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 23 Oct. 2021
• The gun, although called a pistol, looks and performs like an assault rifle.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021
• But other common video game tropes—assault rifles and the like—aren't close at hand in her San Diego studio.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• Ten officers with assault rifles blocked the entrance to the bar as more made their way inside.
  — Sofia Viera, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2024
• Maggie had been shot five times with an AR-style assault rifle, while Paul had been shot twice at close range with a shotgun.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
• Last week a man wearing body armor and armed with an assault rifle and a nail gun tried to breach the FBI's Cincinnati office.
  — David Klepper, ajc, 16 Aug. 2022
• Bullet holes etched by an assault rifle dot the entrance.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• One of the individuals in the video is seen firing dozens of shots with an assault rifle.
  — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2020
• The trio was among a handful of people who helped tackle and subdue the assailant, whose assault rifle had jammed.
  — Evie Fordham, Fox News, 2 May 2021
• The thief entered the jewelry store disguised as a woman, in a black gown and face veil, then drew a pistol and an assault rifle to rob the place.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• The assailants carried an AK-47 assault rifle and fired at Guillermo and his 16-year-old co-worker, Rafael, killing both of them.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2021
• Ana Rodriguez, the mother of Maite Rodriguez, pleaded for a ban on assault rifles.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• The Azeri turned up at the journalist’s Brooklyn home with an AK-47-style assault rifle, prosecutors say.
  — Renee Maltezou, Cassell Bryan-Low, Yannis Souliotis and Phil Stewart, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024