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How to use the word casings in a Sentence?

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They had a lot of the information or the logistics of what was -- like bullet casings and stuff like that, but when it comes to who was involved with the actual shooting, who was around -- and the people information ? I actually provided that to the police.

Dorothy Royston

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were able to relate the casings found on both the scenes that are likely fired from the same firearm, we quickly started looking at other cases that could be similar and identify that there might be a really active public threat.

Kyle Hartsock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

NIBIN allows us the immediate entry of those fired cartridge casings and produce leads immediately, additionally, they're connecting crime scenes across jurisdictions. So, for example, you have a shooting here in L.A. before [we used NIBIN] that information would have just remained here in Los Angeles. But now through the NIBIN system, we're able to connect that shooting to a shooting in Orange County, possibly a shooting in Las Vegas. In the past, we were just narrowly focused on the given area.

Stephen Galloway

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The gun used in this incident was a 40-caliber pistol. It had an extended magazine, we know Garland Police Chief Jeff Bryan fired at least 20 rounds because we found the shell casings.

Garland Police Chief Jeff Bryan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Old associates of the housepainter/alleged serial killer claim that, a few years prior to Poste’s 2018 death at 80, he had quietly given away his weapons, pistol parts, gunpowder, bullets and shell casings – more than a thousand, involving 25 different calibers – to his favorite locals, and most of these peculiar ‘gifts’ have remained in basements and closets, untouched, ever since.

The Case

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I know what I’m handing [the actor], plus, you can’t really load a real bullet into a prop gun that’s been modified. The casings for the blanks are a little thinner, a little smaller, and they modify the barrel. So a real bullet can’t be put in it.

Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These horses have never needed to know what ice cubes were. Yet, like me, something in them knows that cooling is necessary, and by the time I'm done handing out all the ice blocks, most of the horses are munching happily on the treats now freed from their melted casings of ice.

Kari Nixon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's a lot of shell casings inside, everything is turned over. There are a few chairs in there, food on the floor, some bottles busted. You can tell somebody left in a hurry. There are some pretty large amounts of blood.

Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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