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"Rifle" in a Sentence (25 examples)
A rifle shot broke the peace of the early morning.
Benjamin shot a bear with a rifle.
The soldier refused to fire his rifle at the enemy.
Suddenly there was a rifle shot.
He always walks with a rifle.
He picked up the rifle and aimed it at the target.
He equipped himself with a rifle.
He carried a rifle on his shoulder.
The gaunt policeman had a bolt-action rifle slung over one shoulder.
She shot him with a rifle.
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Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.
Near-synonym: riffle
She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.
Thither repair at accustomed times their harlots […] not with empty hands, for they be as skilful in picking, rifling, and filching as the upright men.
thine enemies […]shall ransack and rifle all the things of Edom; and shall search out all thy hidden commodities, and carry them away at once
Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.
Ben, in his long, lonely wanderings about the island, had found the skeleton — it was he that had rifled it; he had found the treasure; he had dug it up […]
Time shall rifle every youthful grace.
Davies's cross was headed away from danger by Robert Huth, only for Baird to take the ball in his stride and rifle his right-footed effort towards the corner from the edge of the box.
2011 Fighting for Gold: The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold by Lorna Schultz Schultz Nicholson But a Norwegian player rifled off a point shot that sailed into the back of the net.
The ball rifled off the bat.
I've at one throw / Rifled away the diadem of Spain; […]
If you like not that course but intend to be rid of her , rifle her at a tavern , where you may swallow down some fifty wiseacres ' sons and heirs to old tenements and common gardens , like so many raw yolks with muscadine to bedward Kate.
We'll strike up a drum, set up a tent, call people together, put crowns apiece, let's rifle for her
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