How to Use silencer in a Sentence

silencer

noun

• Paul Ryan says there are no plans to bring a gun silencer bill to the floor.
  — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2017
• The SIM card slot, volume down, volume up and the silencer are all on the left side.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 9 Nov. 2020
• The silencer was fashioned from an oil can, the sheriff said.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
• The shooter used a .22-caliber gun equipped with a silencer.
  — Mary Spicuzza, Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2024
• The volume up, volume down, sound silencer and SIM card slot are all found on the left side.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 20 Oct. 2020
• The power button and SIM card slot are on the right, while the volume silencer and rocker are on the right.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 20 Sep. 2019
• Mini is home to the SIM card slot, volume up, volume down and the silencer switch.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 9 Nov. 2020
• Peter Van Sant: He's asked Yura to help him get a gun with a silencer.
  — CBS News, 10 Apr. 2021
• Five shots were fired from a pistol fitted with a silencer.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 16 Nov. 2020
• Write down the targets, draw up plans and booby trap the roads, lay down [roadside bombs], and spread out snipers and kill with silencers.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 27 Jan. 2020
• Black because we’re done being silenced and we’re done with the silencers.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 8 Jan. 2018
• Jake Wagner bought a silencer in March 2016 and bought parts to build silencers.
  — Chris Graves, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2016
• The bill would have restricted the ability of states and cities to regulate the sales of firearm silencers.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2020
• Through the dark Web, Fenech tried to buy cyanide and a pistol with a silencer, but neither transaction went through.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• One of the five firearms belonging to the killers was also fitted with a homemade silencer.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2019
• Descaling the tank took up to 40 minutes and 9 cups of vinegar to soak the tank, float pad, water filter, and noise silencer.
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 June 2024
• The silencer lacked a serial number, as required by the NFA.
  — Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Sep. 2021
• The silencer on the gun in the photo is actually a Pat McGrath lipstick that Swift is known to wear.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
• The silencer on the gun in the photo is actually a Pat McGrath lipstick that Swift is known to wear.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
• The police also found, in a van parked outside the store, a Ruger Mark IV pistol with a homemade silencer.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
• Robert Lyons, 32, possessed and made firearm silencers in violation of the law, the news release said.
  — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 23 June 2017
• That gun, which had a long silencer attached, was found when police searched the home, alongside a Glock handgun and about three pounds of cannabis.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• One soldier drew his pistol and fitted it with a silencer.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
• Steven Carrillo slid open the van door and readied his rifle, equipped with a silencer.
  — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 July 2022
• One of his sons has voiced strong support for easing the restrictions on gun silencers.
  — Lisa Marie Pane and Emily Swanson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2017
• Green had also bought potatoes so that Cutler could use one as a silencer.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 June 2024
• Gemtech, based in Eagle, is one of the world’s leading companies for design and sales of gun silencers.
  — Ruth Brown, idahostatesman, 7 July 2017
• If the firearm possessed is a machine gun, or is equipped with a firearm silencer, then the imprisonment is no less than 30 years.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 31 May 2023
• The blood in the silencer presented a grave difficulty.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• The only firearm listed as unregistered is an AK-47 silencer.
  — Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024