Sentence examples for were a gun from inspiring English sources
Then the man reached into his pants pocket, withdrawing his hand as if it were a gun, the police said, and pretended to shoot at some of the officers.
Things could be much, much worse, namely if I were a gun owner with a permit to carry a concealed firearm in my home state and an itch to do so in any other state I visited as well.
The judge later dismissed two jurors who said they felt threatened when a spectator pointed his thumb and index finger at the jury as if they were a gun.
After days of vague and confusing statements the department eventually said Alderman, 29, had been carrying a black tire-iron and held it towards Garrett as if it were a gun.
In one such case last year, five officers shot and killed Khiel Coppin, a troubled 18-year-old, outside his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, after he pulled a hairbrush from under his sweatshirt as if it were a gun.
He climbs into a decimated building, and after toying with a bit of broken pipe as if it were a gun, and scooting down a collapsed girder as if it were a playground slide, he turns and impassively walks off an open ledge, tumbling into the void.
