Sentence examples for gunned by from inspiring English sources

What's particularly odd, though, is that the film wants its audience to sympathise not with Thomas, whose house has been machine- gunned by a maniac while he, his family and his friends were inside, but with the maniac.

Several times during the day they were machine gunned by hostile aircraft, but no casualties were sustained.

This large column of Ottoman soldiers was seen about 8 mile north of Nablus moving down the road towards Beisan and was heavily bombed and machine gunned by British and Australian aircraft.

But we also need you to be in the SHIELD TV show, where you will creep on and then get stun-gunned by a young Englishwoman.

On the way they narrowly escape being machine-gunned by marijuana farmers before encountering a pod of like-minded Western hedonists living communally in "paradise".

On one occasion that he knew of, Eriksson said, American troops, attracted by the familiar odor of decomposing bodies, had found a pit piled high with Vietnamese men and women who had been machine-gunned by the V.C.

His services were declined by the propaganda agency he hoped to work for, and as part of the British delegation to the International Conference in Madrid, "he underwent the incongruous experience of being driven around in a Rolls-Royce and supplied with Champagne while farm workers were being machine-gunned by Franco's planes several miles away".

The attacks continued throughout the afternoon, and when the rest of the Anzac Divisional Headquarters moved to Tel el Saba at 18 00, they were machine-gunned by hostile aircraft.

She was gunned down by two men.

There, Dr. Reppetto said, Petrosino was gunned down by two hitmen.

At 14, Mukiri was gunned down by authorities.