Sentence examples for empty gun from inspiring English sources

"empty gun" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a gun that has been fired and is no longer loaded with ammunition. For example, "The police officer took the empty gun from the suspect and placed it in an evidence locker."

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I came across a drainage pipe and threw the empty gun into it.

Three empty gun clips were found at the scene, police said.

But, almost masochistically, he deliberately uses an empty gun and is shot down by the police.

The official said the agents in Washington searched his car and found camping equipment, two other hatches and empty gun cases but no guns or ammunition.

Walter Millis, and old isolationist, declared war on the German Reich personally in the World-Telegram, Col Lindbergh advised us against any further gesturing with an empty gun.

At midnight, Judah lifts an empty gun and pulls the trigger and at the same moment, in the sealed room, King falls back, wounded with a bullet.

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In the jungle, entire encampments have been abandoned, bomb shelters are empty, guns – soon to be decommissioned – hang idle next to metal water-bottles and civilian clothes and field hospitals have no patients.

We find economists sticking to empty guns, overstating their cases, playing modern-day oracles, drinking their own Kool Aid, gambling their fortunes, losing their shirts, getting depressed, disparaging one another, and descending into intellectual oblivion.

You don't want to be caught with empty guns.

There are no exceptions to this rule, not even empty guns.

Emptying gun cases and bare shelves gave a picked-over feel to gun stores in many states.

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