How to Use gunplay in a Sentence

gunplay

noun

• The play — not so much the gunplay — remains the thing.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• There’s gunplay, a few close calls, some hot stunts, blah, blah, blah.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• The gunplay feels pretty good and there’s a wide array of guns to choose from.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• The Suicide Squad works best when Gunn the director can go to town with the dirty jokes and the over-the-top gunplay.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• While the gunplay is fun, the level design of the campaign is just as good.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• Also injured in the gunplay was a motorist driving through the area at the time of the shooting.
  — Katelyn Umholtz | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• There’s no gunplay, there’s no slashing, there’s no blood.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• Disagreements like that had a way of getting out of hand in the hills, leading to a fistfight or gunplay.
  — Chris Offutt, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Those who had become skilled with firearms and were willing to use them were hired for all sorts of things that might involve gunplay.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2021
• Even the gunplay, of which there is plenty, feels secondhand.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2021
• The frontier legend could not have lasted without gunplay in the movies, which wasted no time weaponizing the old West and the new.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• One Ring then works in post-production to make that faked gunplay look real.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Jan. 2022
• Even if Arkane’s gunplay has never been its strongest suit, its worse here than it’s ever been.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Some action movies have elaborate effects, some have martial arts, some have gunplay, but The Matrix would have to have all of the above.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
• Louis first thought the gunplay — a brief volley, a few seconds of silence, then a sustained barrage — was the work of rival drug dealers.
  — Bryan Denson, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2020
• Cyberpunk 2077 diverges from that series in a few major ways, and the first is with brutal high-speed gunplay.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 June 2018
• There’s no action, really, in the sense of chases or gunplay or anything.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2016
• How much Scrabble can one family play before the gunplay starts?
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• At times, the parties and sideshows — which aren’t exactly quiet — may include gunplay.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 25 Oct. 2020
• All three of the tracks have synth-heavy overtones with a tinge of ethereal horror, perfectly suited to the gruesome white-knuckle gunplay of the game.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
• The gunplay and melee combat are more impactful, and the encounters are set up with a bit more freedom for strategy.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
• But the last gen versions of the game, where the biggest problems have always been, are still quite bad, with performance even affecting gunplay.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• There had been 187 shootings in Minneapolis since Jan. 1 — two-and-a-half times the pace of gunplay in the same period a year earlier.
  — D.j. Tice, Star Tribune, 29 May 2021
• Most of the rest of the series is people driving around in the dark, skulking in the dark, experiencing headaches in the dark and engaging in pew-pew-pew-level gunplay.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2022
• Chief will be up against some of his most harrowing enemies yet, but that should make for some exciting gunplay.
  — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 31 Oct. 2021
• That prompted all manner of talk about gunplay and dire consequences for the perpetrators if the chance ever arose.
  — Paul Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2018
• To overcome them, the player has to think on their feet, juggling various spells in a manner not unlike the frenetic gunplay of the Doom series.
  — Reid McCarter, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
• These were serious holdups, with gunplay, corpses sieved with bullets, and explosives to blow a path to the cache of goods, which wasn’t always as rich as the robbers had expected.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• Chappell’s script pits old-fashioned Christie-style chills against the hip gunplay that Köpernick claims will excite Eisenhower-era squares.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
• And the brisk and busy ending is a fireworks show of redemption, revelation and old-fashioned gunplay.
  — Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024