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Recent Examples of tommy gun
Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
Gauging from the trailer, this grisly period piece appears to be set in the South with Jordan starring in a dual role as a pair of twins, at least one of whom gets to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Guy comes up, holding a tommy gun.
—George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
That applies to all the dialogue, which doesn’t change at all from character to character, each of them firing off pop culture references like a tommy gun.
—Joshua Alston, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
On the back of the bottle was a ghost engraving: the original G-man in a fedora, toting a tommy gun.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
The image of a mask-wearing authoritarian pointing a tommy gun at first looks like irresistible kitsch but now seems disturbingly accurate for the COVID apocalypse.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
In the 1930s, the fee doubled the cost of a new tommy gun.
—Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2020
The decade was also rife with poisonous bathtub gin, murderous Mafia dons, and the merciless rat-a-tat of tommy guns, as well as myriad political and cultural struggles simmering beneath the surface.
—Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, 17 Jan. 2020
Noun
After speeches by longtime colleagues (the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, presented him with a replica tommy gun), Garland spoke.
—Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
Gauging from the trailer, this grisly period piece appears to be set in the South with Jordan starring in a dual role as a pair of twins, at least one of whom gets to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Guy comes up, holding a tommy gun.
—George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
That applies to all the dialogue, which doesn’t change at all from character to character, each of them firing off pop culture references like a tommy gun.
—Joshua Alston, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
On the back of the bottle was a ghost engraving: the original G-man in a fedora, toting a tommy gun.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
The image of a mask-wearing authoritarian pointing a tommy gun at first looks like irresistible kitsch but now seems disturbingly accurate for the COVID apocalypse.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
In the 1930s, the fee doubled the cost of a new tommy gun.
—Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2020
The decade was also rife with poisonous bathtub gin, murderous Mafia dons, and the merciless rat-a-tat of tommy guns, as well as myriad political and cultural struggles simmering beneath the surface.
—Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, 17 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tommy gun
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Until finally Reacher outsmarted him by plugging the barrel of the machine gun Paulie shot, which exploded into his throat and killed him.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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In one such instance, the informant bought a $1,700 machine gun from Talley last September, the complaint says.—
Nate Gartrell,
The Mercury News,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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Prosecutors said police found two weapons in the getaway car when the men were detained on a highway about 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside Amsterdam, a Heckler and Koch machine pistol and, in a Louis Vuitton bag, a blank-firing pistol that had been modified to take 9-millimeter rounds.—
MIKE CORDER,
ajc,
18 Oct. 2021
Noun
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He was arrested after a loaded AK-47 assault rifle was found in his backseat.—
Stephen Sorace,
Fox News,
19 Mar. 2025
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In 2019, a twenty-one-year-old from a small town outside Dallas had travelled to a Walmart in El Paso and opened fire with a semi-automatic assault rifle, killing twenty-three shoppers.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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That is when firearm sellers in California began offering unfinished receivers for the AR-15 and AK-47 series of guns, in an attempt to circumvent the state’s assault weapons laws, according to T. Christian Heyne of Brady, a gun violence prevention organization.—
Annie Karni,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Jean Robert Casimir, 52, who once served on the security team of a former Haiti National Police chief, was arrested in December after U.S. investigators traced two semi-automatic AR-15 assault weapons back to him.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Tommy gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tommy%20gun. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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