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How to use the word shotguns in a Sentence?

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Now because of those two bills, one says de-escalate and the other says take away my tools. Well, you can’t have both. So now we’ve had to remove all of our less-lethal shotguns from our vehicles, and we’re encouraging all our smaller agencies to do the same, they’ll say, ‘That’s not the intent of the law,’ but the sad part is the letter of the law says ‘you shall not use 50 caliber or larger,’ so if a judge looks at it, he or she will look at the letter of the law, not the intent.

Lewis County

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So I packed some, you know, guns, rifles and shotguns and handguns, right there, another driving shooter. I was hiding behind the car, another shooter. The first time, I was scared.

David Joo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Anytime you pursue a young man, go jump in a truck with shotguns and a pistol... and you follow him and slaughter him like that, that's lynching.

Gregory McMichael

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Anytime you pursue a young man, go jump in a truck with shotguns and a pistol ... and you follow him and slaughter him like that, that's lynching.

Marcus Arbery Sr.

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You know, keep your pistols, keep your long rifles, keep your shotguns.

Eric Swalwell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We heard a couple of noises outside and people started running into the club. We didn't know what was going on. Then maybe five, six guys came in with machine guns and shotguns and just started shooting people. It was mayhem. When anyone started running, they would shoot them down. So we got down on the floor, nick was in front of me when we were lying on the ground and somebody moved and they just turned round and started shooting us. His back was to me and I couldn't see what happened and I tried to keep him talking and then I tried to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and [the gunmen] were just sort of in the shadows and they would shoot if anyone said anything. Then he couldn't breathe anymore and I held him in my arms and told him I loved him.

Helen Wilson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think the word slaughter here is truly appropriate, we're talking about federal agents on boats blasting cormorants out of the sky with shotguns.

Portland Conservation Director Bob Sallinger

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Godfather, The

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14 years ago

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