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Example sentences for "gunned"

Lexicographically close words:
gunmaker; gunmakers; gunman; gunmen; gunne; gunnel; gunner; gunners; gunnery; gunny
  1. Tom gunned his port jet turbine and swung the Swiftsure hard right.

  2. Tom and the others had just put on the jackets and the engine had barely gunned into life when disaster struck.

  3. Stan gunned the engines and they caught, bursting into a perfect and unbroken stream of power.

  4. The chocks were jerked loose and Stan gunned the ship.

  5. Swiftly, with the engine gunned in, Don lifted the helicopter above the small groups of fluffy, white cloud that gave him excuse for his experiment.

  6. He gunned the engine enough to bring them close to the old wharf and then let the incoming tide drift them, while Chick, out on a pontoon, sidewise to the piling, caught the rope they had cut and left hanging some nights earlier.

  7. With his own motive power so quiet, Garry could locate easily the sharp, intermittent periods of noise as Don alternately fed full-gun and gunned down.

  8. But the patrol plane just circled low overhead, gunned its motors and flew away.

  9. The fighter planes gunned their engines in greeting as they passed the American ships, and Scoot could see the crews waving and laughing happily on the decks of the ships.

  10. Satisfied, he cut the Rahl-Diesels, gunned the helicopter props and dropped lightly down on the stubbly field of Sola Ranch.

  11. Lance gunned it to ten thousand feet, Praed following him neatly.

  12. The Germans had not sniped or machine-gunned the stretcher-bearers, but had sent their own men out on the same mission too.

  13. They gunned the pirate craft to a wreck in a running fight.

  14. Dark's pirate ship, the Falcon, had been gunned to a helpless wreck.

  15. As regards the battle itself, no one in the Sydney has anything but admiration for the pluck and skill with which the Emden fought a losing battle against a faster and more heavily gunned ship.

  16. The captain laughed and gunned the motor, started straight for the men blocking the road.

  17. With a curse the captain sat down in the seat, gunned the motor, and started forward.

  18. Enemy machine-guns at fairly close range throughout the day kept up continual bursts of fire, which made any movement a matter of great difficulty, while low-flying aeroplanes constantly machine-gunned the troops in their new positions.

  19. To increase his powers of resistance further, he also employed on this portion of the front a number of aeroplanes, which flew low over our attacking waves, and constantly bombed and machine-gunned the troops and batteries.

  20. But Sir Thomas kept his eyes grimly on the road as he gunned the powerful Lincoln toward the Yucca Flats Labs at eighty miles an hour.

  21. Boyd gunned the motor and headed toward the San Francisco Freeway.

  22. When you get your vehicle re-ammoed, lieutenant, suppose you buzz back to where you machine-gunned that first gang.

  23. One of the aircars had rocketed and machine-gunned some Keegarkans who appeared to be trying to repair them; the other blew up King Orgzild's nitroglycerine plant.

  24. Kennedy was gunned down in the Presidential limousine in Dallas, Texas.

  25. Malcolm X was gunned down by four blacks, probably associated with the Black Muslims, while addressing a meeting in New York City early in 1965.

  26. Negro educator, Lemuel Penn, was gunned down by snipers as he drove through Georgia on his way home from a training session for reserve officers.

  27. He saw the three men who had destroyed it running away, and he chased them into a wadi and machine-gunned them.

  28. The airmen bombed the enemy from a low altitude and also machine-gunned them, and moreover by their timely information gave great assistance during the operations.

  29. Daniel Mauser was only 15 years old when he was gunned down at Columbine.

  30. Right here in our nation's capital, a brave young man named Jason White, a policeman, the son and grandson of policemen, is ruthlessly gunned down.

  31. The enemy retreating up the Es Salt road were bombed and machine-gunned by our aircraft.

  32. Some, flying low, bombed and machine-gunned the retreating Turks, and completed their confusion.

  33. Cause didn't he down them rustlers what gunned the old man?

  34. I find a young Mex kid I left in the house, gunned proper, an' the rest locked up, so I come into town an' fetched Bill Tucker.

  35. I'd 'a' bet my best mule team against a dollar Mex that you'd have gunned him on sight.

  36. It's up to you to come through with an explanation of why Webb's men have just gunned three of our friends.

  37. Two of the Lazy S M men were gunned an' one of yours was wounded.

  38. I ought to have gunned him in his tracks.

  39. The "County" class of cruisers, which immediately preceded those just mentioned, are considerably smaller, though to some minds but weakly gunned for their size.

  40. The two first-named ships were armoured cruisers of large size, but not too well gunned for their displacement.

  41. Jumping into the truck, he gunned the jets and roared off into the dark Martian night.

  42. Tom looked at the man, threw out the rest of the food and water from the compartment, and gunned the huge truck down the highway.

  43. The force of the drive pushed him deep in his seat, to be sure, but it was a gradual pressure and not at all like the sudden violent jerk that came when he gunned the Polaris.

  44. I gunned my motor, edged forward toward the fresh broken edge of the shelf.

  45. Then, quite suddenly, the Bug gave a lurch; I gunned my motor and nothing happened.

  46. He gunned the engine and the body rolled in the trunk.

  47. He wouldn't let Kurt walk him up the steps and put him to bed, so instead Kurt watched from the curb until Alan went inside, then gunned the engine and pulled away.

  48. Guess I gunned my new skin-diving jet a bit too hard," Tom said sheepishly.

  49. He ordered a change of course, hard to the right, and gunned the jets to bring the jetmarine directly on the mystery object's trail.

  50. Then he reversed blade pitch for air flight and gunned the atomic turbines.

  51. Tom whirled about, then gunned his ion drive.

  52. He darted back to the controls and gunned the reverse jets just in time!

  53. Overcoming a moment of panic, Mel gunned his ion drive to dodge the attack.

  54. Tom surfaced the Sea Hound and reversed blade pitch, then gunned the rotor turbines for an aerial reconnaissance flight, while the jetmarine and the other seacopter stood by in the water.

  55. He gunned his jet, forcing himself and his adversary toward the Sea Hound.

  56. Captain von Müller recognises the Sydney at once as a much faster and more heavily gunned ship than his own.

  57. Away to starboard came more Dreadnoughts, and Royal Sovereigns—as powerful as ourselves but not so fast—and odd ships like the seven-turreted Agincourt and the 14-inch gunned Canada.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gunned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.