How to Use six-shooter in a Sentence
six-shooter
noun-
Babies are handed six-shooters before the butt slap.
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 June 2026
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As Rosalind disguised as a boy, Adele wore a bolo tie and a low-slung gun belt with a six-shooter.
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Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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In the latest Texas gold fight, though, six-shooters, stagecoaches and dusty trails have been replaced by legal briefs and courtrooms.
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Paul Flahive,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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After scoring the touchdown, Hill ran up the tunnel just beyond the end zone before returning with finger-six-shooters firing.
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Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
28 Dec. 2025
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The handgun, which was introduced in 1935 after Prohibition, is a six-shooter revolver that fires rounds at a high velocity.
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Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
28 Nov. 2025
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