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
• The shooter, Audrey Hale, 28, was gunned down by police.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
• The previous leader, Boris Nemtsov, was gunned down within sight of the Kremlin in 2015.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 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
• In the series, Keefe D admitted publicly to being in the Cadillac that gunned down Tupac for the first time.
  — Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ruth Whitfield and nine others, all Black, were gunned down by a white supremacist.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
• The hip-hop icon, whose real name was Jason Mizell, was gunned down in 2002 inside his music studio in Hollis, Queens.
  — Jessica Moore, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
• The judge’s decision brought relief to the family of Maria and Benison Tran, who were gunned down in their home on September 2022.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
• At the end of season 2, Euphoria left off with young Ashtray (Javon Walton) was gunned down in a standoff with police.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
• Within a week of Spence’s arrest, a security guard gunned down a man at a bar in Highlandtown.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 29 Aug. 2023
• But a few days before that meeting, on the evening of June 18, he was gunned down outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Prosecutors said Armstrong, 35, gunned down the 25-year-old Wilson in a jealous rage.
  — CBS News, 17 Nov. 2023
• He’s accused of gunning down 51-year-old Shahbaz Hussain and 42-year-old Shamun Shaukat, both employees at the gas station.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2024
• The three soldiers are believed to have escaped captivity, with one of them carrying a white flag, when they were gunned down by their own troops.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 15 Jan. 2024
• An elderly couple — married for almost 60 years — was gunned down in their Fort Lauderdale home about two weeks ago.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• The United States is the only country in the world that will not act to stop our citizens from being gunned down in our movie theaters, our concerts, our grocery stores or in our streets.
  — Amanda Morris, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024