revolver

Definition of revolvernext

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Recent Examples of revolver However, several personal items remain missing, including his wallet, a revolver and a holster for the gun. Stepheny Price , Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026 He was heard yelling in an agitated manner, and officers saw Lindner with a revolver in his hand. Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026 The firearm found at the scene was later determined to be a gold lighter manufactured to appear as a revolver. Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026 When Friedmann turned back around, Gambill was pointing his revolver at him. James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for revolver
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Noun
  • On March 11, a San Francisco police violence reduction team raided his Albany apartment and found a Glock pistol with a fully automatic sear switch, according to police.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Zangara, who had purchased the pistol for $8 at a local pawnshop, mingled among a record crowd of 25,000 people who had come to catch a glimpse of the famed FDR.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This mysterious derringer pistol has sparked more intrigue than any of his other dangerous finds because people want to know the back story.
    Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger.
    Brian Matthew Jordan, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Two people have been charged, and a handgun was recovered, following a gunfire incident in the early morning of March 26 on the East Side of Aurora, according to the Aurora Police Department.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have fatally shot a man who was allegedly armed with a handgun in East LA on Wednesday morning.
    Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Kearee Captain, 21, of Hercules, was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, due to a prior weapons conviction in Contra Costa, court records show.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • One 16-year-old male was charged with delinquent unlawful possession of a firearm, large capacity feeding device and ammunition and carrying a loaded firearm and is expected to be arraigned in West Roxbury District Court.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the latest Texas gold fight, though, six-shooters, stagecoaches and dusty trails have been replaced by legal briefs and courtrooms. FROM 2016: New law calls for bringing Texas gold home.
    Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The handgun, which was introduced in 1935 after Prohibition, is a six-shooter revolver that fires rounds at a high velocity.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • That's when authorities said the homeowner allegedly pointed a gun at the worker, sending him running for his life.
    Erika Stanish, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The play, like the movie, is loosely based on a robbery that took place in 1972, on a boiling-hot August day, when an eccentric, deep-in-debt Vietnam veteran named John Wojtowicz entered a Chase bank in Brooklyn with a gun and two accomplices, hoping for a quick score.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • There were four Elvises—two in fading black and white, two in lurid colour—all aiming a six-gun straight at her.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • And a sidearm lefty against [Smith] isn’t ideal either.
    Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Each had a sidearm clasped in both hands.
    Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026

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“Revolver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolver. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.

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