Sentence examples for a single sniper from inspiring English sources

A single sniper bullet had entered his neck.

Ballistics evidence by the federal Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearmsproved critical in tying the shooting spree to a single sniper.

Because if I have a single sniper sitting on top of the roof, I'm not going to destroy the whole building.

I'd spray bullets in a semicircle, and then there would be a single quick sniper shot and I'd be dead.

The routine had been a long and risky maneuver by dashing and dropping, without a hint of cover, as bursts of machine-gun bullets and single sniper shots zipped past or thumped in the soil, kicking up a fine white powder that coats the land.

Single sniper shots shrieked down Nasr Road, the main thoroughfare leading through the camp; sustained bursts of machine gun fire clattered into nearby buildings; wayward rounds shredded through the labyrinthine networks of tents and tarpaulin shacks.

A single shot from a sniper was enough to stop a battalion while the captain in charge called for an air strike or an artillery barrage on the hamlet from which the sniper had fired.

But at Remington there is a sense that its heritage as a riflemaker (with a single government contract for sniper rifles) may have been squandered under pressure from Cerberus and The Freedom Group (which acquired the loss-making firm in 2007) to win market share and lucrative military contracts for the AR-15 from Colt, the primary supplier of the Eugene Stoner- designed weapon to the army.

But a sniper taking a single clean shot, not into a crowd but through the sight, reminds us horribly of death itself.

Although criminals often go beyond a single jurisdiction, as in the sniper case, data on a crime,from the type of weapon used to physical characteristics, may remain in a single department's files and the connections between crimes may be overlooked.

A single shot from a British sniper killed six Taliban insurgents when the bullet hit the trigger switch of a would-be suicide bomber's device, the Ministry of Defence has said.