How to Use machine-gun in a Sentence

machine-gun

1 of 2 adjective

• The melody and Coriolanus’ calls to Lucy Gray come alive in the woods, prompting him to machine-gun the trees to stop the noise.
  — EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
• But the men on the hill were ready and laid down suppressive machine-gun fire of their own.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• His team flew toward a farmhouse that held a machine-gun nest.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• The bullets were clipped together in long strands for rapid, machine-gun fire.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Hundreds of thousands have fled to the south, leaving a silence broken only by the pop of machine-gun fire and the heavy thrum of Israeli tanks.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• The darkness soon erupted with machine-gun fire, thudding bazookas and something else.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Suddenly, a German fighter plane pounced on the lumbering Liberator and tore it in half with a burst of machine-gun fire.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023
• Getting hooked on Hearn’s machine-gun delivery led to the Lakers becoming his favorite team.
  — Scott Howard-Cooper., Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• All morning, fighting could be heard throughout the area, most of it machine-gun fire and shelling, as Israeli troops advancing deeper into Gaza clashed with Hamas fighters.
  — Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• At least two Soviet MiGs — accounts of how many exactly vary — appeared suddenly and strafed the Neptune with machine-gun fire that tore into the plane and set the left engine afire.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• Smedley, for whom a stretch of Interstate 4 between Orange and Seminole counties is named, died in a one-man assault on an enemy machine-gun nest in Vietnam.
  — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
• Depending on drive mode and throttle position, the eight-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission can be machine-gun quick or comfortably relaxed.
  — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023
• People were trapped in the open, incinerated, asphyxiated and strafed with machine-gun fire.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• The film’s fashion reputation preceded it; fans with temporary machine-gun tattoos mobbed the red carpet.
  — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2024
• In Mexico, drug cartels have recently outfitted monster trucks with battering rams and machine-gun turrets to use in shootouts.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Weber said modern inkjet printers with complicated, glitch-prone software remind him of his father’s complex machine-gun printer.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• In this portrait of a remote and insular place, the machine-gun loquaciousness of both Eli and Naomi lays bare a spectacular self-confidence, but one that’s tinged with desperation and thrives on conflict of the high school melodrama sort.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• The planes relentlessy pounded anti-aircraft and machine-gun positions and rocket installations.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023

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machine gun

2 of 2 noun

• They heard the sound of machine-gun fire.
• Between the rounds of machine gun fire, the screams of the victims can be heard.
  — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2019
• Like the advent of the gun, the crossbow, and the machine gun, the atomic bomb changed the shape of warfare.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2021
• The man left his machine gun in Ukraine and owed a large fine for losing it.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• There is the sound of machine guns shooting down drones.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• The rifle uses heavy machine gun rounds and has a range of up to four miles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
• He had been issued a machine gun and was headed to the war.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022
• Once all the Pogues are on the lifeboat, there's a tense moment where the boat stalls, and Rafe has the chance to shoot them with a machine gun.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2021
• The gun in question was the notorious Thompson machine gun, and the time was the 1920s.
  — Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
• Two-Face's whole role is to barge into scenes with a machine gun.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2022
• The State Guard brought machine guns and shotguns to Boston.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• The enemies have the machine gun while most of us are still hurling rocks.
  — Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Struck on the head and knocked down by a glancing machine gun bullet, 1st Lt.
  — Les Francis, The Mercury News, 25 June 2019
• There’s even a dude in a panda suit firing a machine gun!
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• He was armed with a machine gun and wearing a bullet-proof vest.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Five tanks armed with machine guns ran over one camp, according to the VA.
  — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
• The air was filled with the shrieks of men in agony, the crackle of machine gun fire, and the thunderous explosions that shook the ground.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
• It is equipped with a 30 mm gun, a machine gun and/or a grenade launcher, and can travel up to 60 miles per hour.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Jan. 2023
• The logo depicts a big bee in a sailor cap holding a hammer, a wrench, and a machine gun.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• Another soldier in the unit, 57-year-old Zil, ripped a machine gun out of the hands of a Russian corpse.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• The sounds of machine gun fire punctuated the pair’s race to safety.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Merkava, the Namer and the Puma all have 7.62 caliber machine guns, Butterworth said.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• The Palestinians come in and gun down 20 civilians with a machine gun.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021
• The troops behind the machine gun reportedly waved him back, yelling that the war was over.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 31 Dec. 2020
• The sled can carry Marines, cargo, or even an M240 machine gun.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2020
• The founders certainly didn’t foresee the war machines guns are now.
  — Thembi Ford, Essence, 8 Aug. 2019
• In 2022, Russians came knocking on the door with their machine guns, looking for Nazis.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2023
• Note the machine gun attached to one of the bicycles at lower right.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
• Smith pleaded guilty in May to the unlawful possession of a machine gun.
  — Alex Malm, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
• After drinking alcohol with his colleagues, the accused took a machine gun and went to the command dugout, knocked on the door, and started shooting at patrolmen, killing a junior sergeant.
  — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2025