How to Use spray gun in a Sentence

spray gun

noun

• The spray gun looked sort of like a really cool Nerf dart gun.
  — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2020
• Rick bought a $14 spray gun from Harbor Freight and watched a bunch of car-painting videos online.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2020
• After a few mood boards and a timely spray gun deal at Home Depot, my now-husband and I dove in.
  — Margaux Lushing, House Beautiful, 3 Mar. 2021
• The brand, Greenworks or Powerworks, appears on the side of the pressure washer spray gun.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 8 Apr. 2021
• The recalls stem from an issue with the spray gun not holding up to the intense water pressure that builds up in the system.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 8 Apr. 2021
• Unlike other spray guns, this one only comes with one tip.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
• The waste is then sprayed onto fields with agricultural spray guns.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2018
• For most people, getting a tan—whether via sun, spray gun, or bottle—is by no means a radical act.
  — Parizaad Khan Sethi, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2023
• In the photo below, Sipma is seen using a spray gun as workmen steady his ladder.
  — latimes.com, 5 July 2019
• Hold the spray gun approximately 6 inches from the panel and spray in a side-to-side sweeping motion.
  — Ben Murphy, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2018
• Then a worker pours food coloring into a funnel that feeds a spray gun, which shoots it into the drum, where the tumbling mixes and dries it.
  — Kevin Dupzyk Christopher Payne, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• The entire set was built using only a circular saw, drill press, and a spray gun (as well as sandpaper, wood glue, and some other odds and ends).
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2016
• In our tests, the Dramm Revolution spray gun was very easy to rotate among the nine different spray settings, all of which were clearly labeled.
  — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023
• The suspect stole merchandise, including a saw, tool kit and spray gun, totaling $407.
  — cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
• The best coating is applied using an adjustable spray gun powered by an air compressor.
  — Bryce M. Towsley, Outdoor Life, 13 May 2020
• In the late 1950s, a spray gun that fired a cloud of poison cyanide gas was used by a former KGB agent to assassinate two Ukrainian nationalist leaders.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2020
• Pressure washers can feature an on-board detergent tank, which holds a cleaning solution that’s pressurized with the water and released through the spray gun with the touch of a switch.
  — Mili Godio, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2021
• Painting pros would probably use DTM (direct-to-metal) paint and apply it with an airless spray gun, but these paints can also be applied with a brush or roller.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• My husband, who majored in industrial design and spent a fair amount of his time in college spray painting models, mastered the spray gun—after a few false starts.
  — Margaux Lushing, House Beautiful, 3 Mar. 2021
• With a futuristic spray gun filled with disinfectant, Truman points the device at door handles, desks and nearly every surface in the room.
  — Lily Altavena, azcentral, 13 Mar. 2020
• In front of a room full of fashion editors, buyers, and influencers, Hadid was sprayed down with Fabrican, a groundbreaking nonwoven synthetic fiber material that can be applied via an aerosol can or spray gun device.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2022
• Catalyzed spray paints otherwise known as two-component or 2K are all the rage these days for delivering a spray gun quality coating without a spray gun and associated apparatus, such as a compressor.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2023
• The practice involves housing thousands of hogs together, flushing their waste into holding pits, allowing bacteria to break down the material, then spraying it onto fields with agricultural spray guns.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2018
• The practice involves housing thousands of hogs together, flushing their waste into holding pits, allowing bacteria to break down the material, then spraying the effluent onto fields with agricultural spray guns.
  — Fox News, 3 June 2018
• The new colorants come in a powdered form that Cypris Materials says can be incorporated into manufacturing processes—added to paint in an automotive spray gun, for example, or mixed into nail polish.
  — Meg Wilcox, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024