Sentence examples for is gunned from inspiring English sources
noun
A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
Say a young man of 18 is gunned down.
A neighborhood matriarch is gunned down, and her family reels.
In the pilot, a senior D.A. is gunned down.
An innocent Brazilian is gunned down by the police and no one resigns.
A Democratic senator is gunned down at a presidential election rally.
When the same man is gunned down, she barely appears to care.
JR is gunned down, in one of the iconic moments of television history.
JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 11 — A politically powerful industrialist is gunned down in an ambush linked to a reputed mobster.
When Laust and Peter do finally find each other, it is only for a moment as Laust is gunned down trying to carry a jibbering Didrich to safety.
A secondary-school teacher in Mosul is gunned down as she leaves for work in defiance of insurgents' demands that she stay at home.
Not when Hrant Dink, the editor of a Turkish-Armenian newspaper, is gunned down by an assassin's bullet for his views on Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide.
