Sentence examples for rifle from inspiring English sources

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rifle

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To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.

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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.

Alexander Lapko, a senior specialist at the Nato liaison office in Kiev, wrote in October in the New York Times that his family had to spend $2,400 £1,6155) on a uniform, boots, gun sight, flak jacket and helmet for his brother, who was issued only a Kalashnikov assault rifle when he joined the army last year.

But in a scene that felt more Office Space than Black Hawk Down, he rose after a moment, stuck his rifle around the corner and fired blindly at an enemy unseen.

On the roof of our building a resister with a.22 rifle loosed off the occasional shot until he was killed by a passing helicopter.

According to other witnesses, Ramsay Smith was also known to shoot corpses with a rifle, then study the wounds.

Crucial shots at point-blank range, suddenly discovering that my tech was the only person who could damage high-armour enemies because of his energy rifle, watching my medic bleed out covered in giant rabbits.

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Road-blocks manned by Stetson-hatted, rifle-carrying policemen have isolated the militia.

On February 9th he stepped out of it unscathed after another assassination attempt, in which the car was hit by an anti-tank grenade and raked with automatic-rifle fire.Had Mr Shevardnadze been driving something less robust, the volatile Caucasus region might be facing two presidential elections next month instead of just one.

Murphy's also been a vocal, unusually sharp critic of the National Rifle Association.

Mr Norquist is also a board member of the National Rifle Association.

There's no National Rifle Association to reap the benefits and distribute the influence of a multi-billion dollar privacy industry.

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