Gunman

//ˈɡʌnmən//

"Gunman" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The crazy gunman threatened to kill me.

The gunman was Jack Ruby.

A gunman shot him in March, 1981.

The gunman was found to be insane.

When she saw the gunman, Soraya nearly had a fit.

Tom works in the building directly opposite where the siege is taking place, and could clearly see a gunman in the cafe together with a number of hostages.

One gunman was arrested.

The gunman is heading our way.

The gunman opened fire with his assault rifle.

Last year, a fake news story about a Washington pizza restaurant went viral, causing a gunman to open fire at the business.

"I've known a heap of gun fighters in my day. An' Jean Isbel don't ran true to class. Shore there never was a gunman who'd risk cripplin' his right hand by sluggin' anybody."

Mohamed Merah, the man believed to be the gunman on a scooter who killed seven people in south-western France, was killed in an armed siege after police surrounded his block of flats in Toulouse.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.