How to Use smoking gun in a Sentence

smoking gun

noun

• This document is the smoking gun that proves that he was lying.
• Are the bricks in the photo the smoking guns they’ve been made out to be?
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2024
• The logic is compelling, sure, and the smoking gun could be out there.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2022
• Skye Lazaro: This is a case in which there doesn't appear to be any smoking gun.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024
• The clues kept coming in, yet a smoking gun was elusive.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
• The father-daughter pair’s find, which was just six miles away from de la Salle’s, was the smoking gun.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2024
• Morgan Loew: There's not one smoking gun that ties Lori to any of these murders.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 13 May 2023
• The biggest difference is the lack of a smoking gun in the Sarver story.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• Turned out, things were about to get a lot worse for Gray, because his wrecked, smoking van was a smoking gun.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024
• Well, Christine, TikTok is asking the same thing—where’s the smoking gun?
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 28 Aug. 2020
• Then Love finds the smoking gun, of sorts: Joe's bloody t-shirt in Henry's diaper pail.
  — Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 20 Oct. 2021
• The smoking gun is turning out to be an exploding cigar.
  — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Her messy blond bun and uniform of black turtlenecks have not been held up as a smoking gun in her subterfuge.
  — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2021
• Anagnopoulos said that the podcast doesn’t produce a smoking gun.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• The smoking gun, in Marr’s view, was a study that found live viruses lingering in the air seven to 16 feet away from patients.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2021
• Help dad up his game in the kitchen with a smoking gun, which can add intense flavors to meat and cheese or even cold smoke on cocktails and ice cream.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2020
• Musk’s first installment of the Twitter Files produced no smoking gun showing that the tech giant had bent to the will of Democrats.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• But the news of the Hunter Biden investigation is hardly a smoking gun.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2020
• Of course, there’s no one smoking gun that’s true for all situations.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• And then Veloz came up with the smoking gun: one of Morie Kimmel's relatives had a photograph.
  — Maureen Maher, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
• That was a smoking gun for Gumowska, who now had ammo enough to pursue her case.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2022
• First, the newly sparking and smoking gun fired bolts that ascended into the sky.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• There’s no evidence here that there’s some kind of a smoking gun, that somebody did something wrong.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 18 Apr. 2024
• But the smoking gun came from an accelerometer clipped to the subjects’ waistbands, which measured the rise and fall of their center of mass.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 27 Dec. 2020
• In this case, there remains no smoking gun to prove either side of the authorship question.
  — Stephen Cox, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• So far, the smoking gun of inflation has not been detected.
  — Dennis Overbye Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
• This kit includes a smoking gun, wood chips, a smoke infuser, a dome lid, and a charging cable.
  — Jessica Comstock, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2024
• Neither Harry nor his lawyers have yet produced a smoking gun.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• The scientific smoking gun for early horse domestication, though, was a set of changes found on some Botai horse teeth and jawbones.
  — William Taylor, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
• The distinctive colorful spots, containing both iron and phosphate, are a smoking gun for certain chemical reactions—rather than microbial life itself.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024