How to Use gun down in a Sentence

gun down

phrasal verb

• Bishop and the seven others were lined up against a wall in the fort and gunned down.
  — Rennie Svirnovskiy, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• When Abu al-Rub rushed to help, he was also gunned down.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• But outrage has ensued over the prospect of gunning down deer from the sky.
  — Soumya Karlamangla Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• Both were in office when Moïse was gunned down inside his home in the middle of the night.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
• The rap legend was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in 1996, one block off the Las Vegas strip.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 23 July 2023
• Richmond, 2006: A man is shot in the face at the funeral of a teenager who was gunned down.
  — Elinor Simek, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
• Rappers flame out as if gunned down in one of their own cop-killer fantasies.
  — Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• By the end of that first hour, Mitch had been gunned down by a gangster who lacked the proper respect for the man’s position.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 2 June 2024
• In the second, Alvarez gunned down to Lindor when Adel broke for second.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
• The shooter, Audrey Hale, 28, was gunned down by police.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• That album — his second — was released 16 days after the rap icon was gunned down to death.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2024
• The previous leader, Boris Nemtsov, was gunned down within sight of the Kremlin in 2015.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
• That caller reported that people involved in the crash had fled, and that one had thrown a gun down a storm drain.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
• The officers then put their guns down, and four officers approach the car, none of whom made the error.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 31 July 2023
• The vast majority of the more than 900 killed were civilians—gunned down in their homes or burned to death as their houses were set on fire.
  — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023
• The officer drew his firearm and ordered Wilson to put the gun down, according to the release.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 3 Sep. 2024
• In the series, Keefe D admitted publicly to being in the Cadillac that gunned down Tupac for the first time.
  — Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
• The verdict brings to four the number of defendants found guilty of gunning down 31-year-old Efraim Gordon.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
• But the training would have led you to believe that every day officers were being gunned down on the streets.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• He was gunned down 10 days before the first round of the presidential election was set to take place on August 20.
  — Jonny Hallam, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
• She’s knocked on doors in the north side neighborhood where he was gunned down, hoping to find surveillance footage of the shooting.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 6 May 2024
• Where are their demands for hearings as our children are gunned down in their classrooms?
  — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2024
• Every time a gangster is gunned down or a car bomb goes off in the streets of Corsica, the local channel flashes footage of the crime scene.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 May 2024
• Tupac was gunned down in 1996, Biggie the following year.
  — Big Boi With Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2023
• He was lured from his car by a tire placed in the road and was gunned down in front of his daughter, Bexley, then 2, who narrowly escaped with her life.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
• One was arrested by Atlanta police; the two others were gunned down in the Bronx the following May.
  — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
• When a third child intervened, the boy put the gun down, and in doing so, accidentally fired the shotgun, hitting the 5-year-old in the head, records show.
  — Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024
• You will neither get gunned down by Snoopy in a biplane, nor will a helicopter land on the freeway to give your parents a ticket.
  — Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2024
• Instead, innocent and unharmed, she was gunned down by an officer of the law.
  — Claire Cardona, NBC News, 18 July 2024
• His son, Eric Talley, a Boulder police officer, was gunned down in the shooting.
  — Andi Babineau, CNN, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024