How to Use blunderbuss in a Sentence

blunderbuss

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  • Past negotiations were just a bunch of negotiators around the table, but now all of the parties have a blunderbuss pointed at their own foot.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Apr. 2021
  • What these stories didn’t mention is that today, seven months before Iowa, polls are about as accurate as a blunderbuss, and most pollsters know it.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 21 June 2019
  • The Senate this week will debate a bipartisan bill that would relax some of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law’s blunderbuss regulations.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
  • It had been fired out of a gravitational gun barrel by a cosmic blunderbuss, a supermassive black hole.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • The orderliness of the Armenian Revolution doesn’t fit the berets-and-blunderbusses image of what a revolution is supposed to look like.
    — Tom Ball, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
  • His blunderbuss diplomacy and a startling proposal to invite Taliban leaders to Camp David unnerved even some of his own advisers.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Over the past two and a half years, Trump blasted away at the lazy conventional wisdom on immigration with a blunderbuss; getting something to show for it legislatively will now require some deftness and guile.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The President's immigration enforcement can be blunderbuss and heavy-handed.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
  • Handicapping off-year congressional elections nearly 400 days in advance has proven about as accurate as an eighteenth-century blunderbuss.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Newsom’s strategy is an unimaginative blunderbuss approach — raising ungodly amounts of cash from billionaires and special interests, and bludgeoning recall proponents as dangerous insurrectionist tools of former President Donald Trump.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Aug. 2021

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