Sentence examples for marksman from inspiring English sources

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marksman

noun

A man or person skilled at hitting targets, as with a firearm, bow, or thrown object.

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Insp Douglas Lovelock, the marksman who shot her, stood trial in 1987 charged with inflicting unlawful and malicious grievous bodily harm and was acquitted.

An inquest jury returned a lawful killing verdict in January 2014, sparking outrage from his family, after hearing that the police marksman, who fired the two bullets in rapid succession, which hit Duggan in the upper chest and right arm, had the honestly held belief he was an "imminent threat to life".

Police marksman Inspector Douglas Lovelock was cleared of malicious and unlawful grievous bodily harm in 1987.

As a good marksman, he would do his bit in any fighting.

Schoolchildren, a man mowing grass, women sitting on benches or loading packages into minivans have been shot by a marksman with a rifle.

Further investigation found that Malvo had been seen traveling with a man named John Muhammad, a Persian Gulf War veteran who had qualified as an expert marksman.

There is also an arts community in the town of Cody, which was founded by entertainer and marksman William F. Cody (better known as Buffalo Bill Cody), whose Wild West show toured throughout the United States and Europe and made him a national celebrity.

Of the four films he made for Republic Studios, the most notable was The Great Flamarion (1945), which starred Erich von Stroheim as the title character, a marksman who is seduced by his stage assistant into killing her husband.

Germany also scored the most goals (14) and had the leading marksman in Golden Shoe winner Miroslav Klose with five goals.

By supporting the rifle firmly, the marksman includes his body, with its much greater mass, as part of the firing system and the backward velocity of the system is correspondingly reduced.

British soldier, marksman, and inventor of the Ferguson flintlock rifle.

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