Sentence examples for gunner from inspiring English sources

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gunner

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Someone connected with Arsenal Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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In February 1965 the Rev C.T. Vivian called him "an evil man" and in the same breath mentioned Hitler, whom Mr Clark had fought as an army gunner, though from the safe distance of the Aleutian Islands.

George Lloyd joined the British navy as a gunner (and bandsman, playing the trumpet).

Here was a man who saw personally to everything, whether a petition from a gunner, or the proper painting of antelopes on his flagship, the Trinity Royal, or the ordering of horseshoe nails.

Nevertheless, with suicidal bravado, he volunteers as a tail gunner.

In "The Blood of My Brother", the point of view in one scene is just behind a Bradley's gunner; in another it runs alongside fighters from the Mahdi army as they draw American fire.

An anti-aircraft gunner mistakenly targeted a commercial jet, prompting some airlines to suspend services to the country.

A few days ago, he says, his 11-year-old daughter was playing with her friends in the street outside when an Israeli gunner peppered a wall above their heads, showering them with bits of plaster.Abu Ahmad was born in Gaza, but worked as a cable-joiner in Saudi Arabia for 27 years.

He served as an aerial gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps (1942 45) and then taught at universities until 1961.

This arrangement made it possible for one gunner to aim and fire, and it was quickly improved on.

Malinovsky was drafted into the imperial army at the start of World War I and fought as a machine gunner throughout that conflict.

In the initial version, deployed in the early 1970s and used with some success in 1982 in the Falklands conflict, the target aircraft was tracked by a gunner using an optical sight.

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