Sentence examples for sidearm from inspiring English sources

Black leather belt with a holster for his sidearm, a.38 calibre pistol.

Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company produced the pistols most widely used during the American Civil War, and its six-shot single-action.45-calibre Peacemaker model, introduced in 1873, became the most-famous sidearm of the American West.

A right-handed thrower with a sidearm delivery who batted right as well, Johnson pitched for the Washington Senators of the American League (AL) from 1907 through 1927.

The three strokes used in handball are the underhand, the basic service stroke; the overhand, for high bounding balls or fly balls; and the sidearm, the best stroke for the kill shot.

In the United States and throughout the British Empire, the double-action revolver became, with few exceptions, the police sidearm of choice for more than a century.

In the two days before they retreated, Syrian troops smashed their way briefly into forward Isis positions, only to discover piles of "tactical vests" – advanced body armour – thermal missiles, stacks of Muslim prayer books in Russian (apparently belonging to Chechen fighters), enough sidearm ordnance for each rebel to carry 10,000 rounds of ammunition each, and stacks of Snickers chocolate bars.

In Western-style democracies, the standard police sidearm is strictly a defensive weapon.

His fast ball and his astonishing curves, pitched sidearm from the apparent vicinity of third base, had the Yankee batters bobbing and swaying like Little Leaguers.

The sidearm reliever Ryan Webb dismissed such talk as a "hitter's problem," adding, "There's also a fishtank behind home plate.

A few years ago, Dudayev, who had served the Soviet Union all his life, suddenly began to sound like the reincarnation of an imam (as played by Peter Sellers with a fake mustache and a sidearm).

QUESTION FROM WILLIAM: a sidearm??? crowd disasters aren't violent….for the most part….a gun would only trigger more movement in the undesired direction which would probably make the sidearm carrier part of the fluid mass and with a very blue face after his last breath.