Sentence examples for revolver for from inspiring English sources

On at least one occasion, prosecutors said, he handed over his own service revolver for use in a robbery.

He bought himself a revolver for self-defence and had good reason to fear for his life.

I also don't have a sudden urge to trade my copy of "Revolver" for a Paul Whiteman reissue.

He had his bicycle for transport, his revolver for security and ultimately his own little house, built on land he bought beside the Seine.

While at school at Eton he supposedly invented a toothbrush that played "Annie Laurie" and a revolver for killing wasps, and he was a great maker of gardens but he really preferred boys.

In the absence of immediate danger, and with various murders and deaths weighing on his mind, Rick has traded in his revolver for a hoe and a bucket of slop.

At 14, James blew the tip off a finger loading revolvers for the local Confederate guerrillas, the bushwhackers.

Through gun buybacks, discounts and Glock-sponsored junkets to strip clubs, the company seduced many law enforcement agencies into trading their obsolescent service revolvers for semiautomatic Glocks.

But it is only when Aomame notices that the policemen have swapped their holstered revolvers for bulky semi-automatic weapons that she realises she has entered a parallel universe.This gripping beginning ensures the reader falls for Aomame, forcing Mr Murakami to work extra hard on her counterpart, Tengo, who appears in alternate chapters in the book.

With the rise of drug-related crime, cops did not want to be outgunned by criminals and were trading in their six-shot revolvers for semiautomatic pistols.

Since Mexico was still largely unstable at this point, he and Blair traveled on horseback and lived mostly in tents, and both carried revolvers for self-protection.