How to Use submachine gun in a Sentence

submachine gun

noun
  • The howls and shrieks come from the basement where Toby wields a submachine gun to kill off rivals.
    — Betsy Morris, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Less well-known is the fact that Johnson owns a Cold War-era submachine gun.
    — oregonlive, 31 May 2022
  • The boy admitted to searching online for a submachine gun in class, police said.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • On the roof, a three-year-old boy from Chile plays with a toy submachine gun, pointing it at anyone who comes within range.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Eells compared the weapon to an Uzi submachine gun, which can fire more rounds per minute than an AR-15.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Players agree that the best close range weapon is the R-99 submachine gun, as well as the Peacekeeper.
    — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.
    — Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 26 June 2024
  • Police officers in riot gear and helmets prowl the lanes, some carrying submachine guns.
    — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Scores of police, some armed with submachine guns, ushered office workers and tourists out of the area packed with office buildings, banks, restaurants and bars.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2019
  • As the five officers told it, Franklin overpowered three of them and gained control of a police submachine gun, wounding the two cops.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Johnson and Drazan both support gun owner rights and Johnson is a firearms collector who owns a submachine gun.
    — oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Satwant Singh, another bodyguard, fired 30 rounds from his submachine gun.
    — Breana Scheckwitz, Fox News, 22 May 2024
  • The police also seized 16 pistols, six rifles, a submachine gun, 12 grenades and a shotgun.
    — Fox News, 7 May 2021
  • The Army has awarded contracts to ten companies to submit submachine guns for the service to evaluate.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 June 2018
  • Torell was holding a plastic toy resembling a submachine gun when he was shot dead in August 2018.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Police learned Pyles owns a handgun and a submachine gun, according to charging documents.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Scores of police, some armed with submachine guns, rushed to the scene, ushering bemused office workers and tourists out of an area packed with office buildings, banks, restaurants and bars.
    — Danica Kirka, The Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Scores of police, some armed with submachine guns, flooded the area, ushering office workers and tourists out of the area, which is packed with office buildings, banks, restaurants and bars.
    — chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Shemel Mercurius, 16, was babysitting her 3-year-old cousin when Taariq Stephens came to her door and shot her three times with a submachine gun.
    — Essence.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • As the birds plunged earthward to gulp water and feast on fatty globs bobbing in treatment ponds, a shadowy figure emerged from the corner of a building holding what looked to be a submachine gun.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Authorities later seized more than 60 guns from his home, including five assault rifles and an Uzi submachine gun.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2017
  • It was buried inside a shipping container alongside a silencer, an Uzi submachine gun and tens of thousands of bullets of different calibers.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The lawsuit posited that the two officers were wounded when the submachine gun went off by accident and that Franklin was killed not in self-defense but to cover up the fiasco.
    — Karl Vick, Time, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Reuters reported that Tha Peng was assigned to a protest in the town of Khampat late last month and was instructed to use his submachine gun on protesters.
    — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Police later seized more than 60 guns from his home, including including 50 pistols, five assault rifles and a submachine gun.
    — Staff, cleveland.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Police said a weapon, possibly a MAC-10 submachine gun, was recovered near the body of the 17-year-old.
    — CBS News, 19 June 2018
  • On Gadhafi’s orders, men inside the embassy opened fire with submachine guns, wounding a number of the demonstrators and killing a British policewoman.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The rifle was being carried by more experienced soldiers, while newer soldiers and conscripts were still issued the wartime PPSh submachine guns.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The man, carrying a submachine gun, was a sergeant in the Royal Netherlands Army, the Dutch queen’s local representative.
    — oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
  • State television broadcast images of weapons allegedly seized in the plot, including a grenade launcher, an Uzi submachine gun and packets of C4 explosives.
    — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2020

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