How to Use ballistics in a Sentence

ballistics

noun

• In addition to the gun and ballistics traces, the wiretaps in the case proved to be crucial.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
• The murder did not fit the same pattern as the others, but the ballistics matched, and Goudeau had left DNA on her body.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• Police used ballistics testing to confirm that the gun thrown from the car was used in the Sept. 14 homicide.
  — Ryan Faircloth, Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• This research could shed light on a wide range of fields, like rocketry and ballistics.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2022
• And a ballistics expert concluded the bullets had not been fired from the same gun.
  — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• All the victims were shot, and police say ballistics evidence linked the same man to the shootings.
  — Laura Haefeli, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2022
• Donald pulled Boyle into the car by grabbing his ballistics vest and turned on the car, police said.
  — oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2021
• Detectives are working to see if there was a ballistics match for the three attacks.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 13 May 2022
• The weapons were taken so that they can be made available for ballistics testing, the official said.
  — Atika Shubert and Abeer Salman, CNN, 13 May 2022
• After ballistics testing, the police concluded that all four had been killed by the same weapon.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
• Authorities say ballistics tests later matched the gun found in Lopez's house to shell casings found at the murder scene.
  — CBS News, 9 Apr. 2022
• According to the science of ballistics, such injuries made no sense.
  — Phil Klay, The New Yorker, 11 June 2022
• Eddie Johnson said in the days after the shooting that ballistics tests confirmed shell casings from both shootings came from the same gun.
  — Laura Haefeli, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2022
• Some were sent to the U.S. Department of Defense for car-crash and ballistics testing, court documents showed.
  — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2020
• Detectives said video surveillance footage placed Maceo’s car at one of the attacks, and then ballistics testing showed the same gun was used in both attacks.
  — Fox News, 25 Dec. 2021
• Cahill tries to put in range time every week, partly to keep sharp for his Guard duties but also out of sheer affinity for ballistics.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2021
• However, the defense argued Friday that ballistics tests are not as surefire as they were once thought to be.
  — John Spina, The Denver Post, 7 June 2019
• Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Taylor per a ballistics analysis.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2021
• Win Mag rifles, and the scope tracked the respective ballistics quickly and precisely.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 18 Aug. 2020
• Police also found a .40 caliber handgun that matched ballistics evidence from the scene of the robbery.
  — Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2022
• Rone was the former chief ballistics expert for Delaware State Police who reviewed the case.
  — Esteban Parra, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2020
• Every summer, Wittington hosts the King of Two Miles event, where competitors stretch the bounds of small-arms ballistics at targets 3,500 yards away and beyond.
  — Field & Stream, 28 Aug. 2020
• The ballistics report could neither confirm nor rule out that the bullet that struck Mattingly came from Walker’s gun.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
• Prosecutors say ballistics tied that gun to the bullet that killed Nemelka.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 8 July 2021
• Doctors remove the bullet from the victim during surgery on October 21 and connect him to the others by ballistics.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 27 July 2021
• The killings weren’t robberies and did not appear to be linked to gang activity, authorities said during the search for a suspect, and the shootings were linked by ballistics.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2022
• But a firearms analyst who testified on Wednesday said that ballistics testing could not determine whether that gun was the one that fired the bullet that killed Bartek.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 28 July 2022
• Perhaps the ballistics evidence Gabe witnessed along the way — gunshot wounds, the bullet casing — suggested this guy could be involved in a lot of dirty deeds.
  — Richard Rys, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2021
• Police found 20 9mm bullet casings at the scene that ballistics tests matched to a Glock 9mm that investigators tied to Palmer, according to court records.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• As far as the evidence collected back then, there was no DNA testing for blood, skin or hair samples that might have been found, and not even ballistics testing, Warkentien said.
  — Dan Scanlan, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024