Sentence examples for pistols from inspiring English sources

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pistols

noun

Plural of pistol

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They found two semi-automatic pistols, a revolver, a shotgun and a rifle in the vehicle, along with a laptop, he said.

A Russian nationalist organisation later said on social media that 70 Lokomotiv fans had taken part in the assault using traumatic pistols (handguns that fire rubber bullets).

"Somebody said one song sounded like Jim Morrison," says Fassbender, "but then the next one sounded like the Sex Pistols.

That one avenger should kill so many people, themselves armed, in such a short space of time would, of course, have been impossible in the days of six-shooter pistols and awkwardly loaded rifles, but set a boy down in a school with a modern assault gun or two and it becomes much more possible, if a boy's thoughts of catharsis should run in that direction.

I think the Pogues are far more unreasonable than Nick Cave and probably even more unreasonable than the Sex Pistols ever were.

Now a collection of stunning black and white images featuring some of the seminal musicians of the 1970s and 80s, including David Bowie and the Sex Pistols, is to be exhibited in public for the first time.

The Ramones were often cited by British punk bands such as the Clash, Buzzcocks and Sex Pistols as an inspiration, an ideal of a raw and ferocious rock'n'roll stripped of pretence and bombast.

Jon Savage Jon Savage is a cultural commentator whose books include England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945 Colin Jones's justly famous photograph captures the Who at a moment of maximum combustibility: "I'd never met a band that were so antagonistic towards each other," he later recalled.

Its attempt at provocative anachronistic dialogue – basically, swearing – will do little to scandalise the 18th-century historian, for contrary to popular opinion swearing was not invented by the Sex Pistols in 1976.

There were also lots of water pistols, bubbles and foam but no disorder.

Where is the beautifully incandescent anger of the excluded that the Who or the Sex Pistols or the Specials once articulated?

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