How do you use Gunfight in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like gunplay or shootout, plus the exact meaning.
Gunfight meaning
A battle (or a duel) using small arms.
Using Gunfight
- The main meaning on this page is: A battle (or a duel) using small arms.
- Useful related words include: gunplay, shootout, fight, fighting.
- In the example corpus, gunfight often appears in combinations such as: the gunfight, in gunfight, gunfight with.
Context around Gunfight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gunfight
- In this selection, "gunfight" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, climactic, fatal, final, less, took and scene stand out and add context to how "gunfight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include continued the gunfight inside the and during the gunfight the official. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gunfight" sits close to words such as abject, accumulations and agnostic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gunfight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Experience Gunfight on a larger scale. (6 words)
He was wounded in the gunfight that ensued. (8 words)
Why is the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral so famous? (11 words)
The gunfight took place in a forest near Danteshpuram village under Bheji police station limits when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma told PTI. (38 words)
A man in Georgia who, police said, killed his workplace manager, mother and grandmother before taking his own life, had been involved in a gunfight less than 48 hours earlier, law enforcement said Friday. (34 words)
The film delivers laughs and action as Pegg and his co-star attempt to foil a strange conspiracy that takes them on a comedic adventure full of police chases and an epic final gunfight. (34 words)
Why is the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral so famous? (11 words)
As they say, you cannot bring a knife to a gunfight! (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
A man in Georgia who, police said, killed his workplace manager, mother and grandmother before taking his own life, had been involved in a gunfight less than 48 hours earlier, law enforcement said Friday.
He dies in the film's climactic gunfight as his actions finally come back to haunt him.
He was killed in a gunfight with Punjab Police in 1992 when he returned to India.
In September, four army personnel were killed in a gunfight in the forests of Kokernag near Anantnag district.
Now, you can outrun your enemy, jump out a window, plate up, and reset the gunfight, without slowing down to a crawl.
Public shootings have been in the news lately, but in 1931 there was a gunfight that saw the northern Melbourne suburb of Glenroy likened to the crime-soaked streets of Chicago.
That is why the fatal gunfight at Mall of America brought out immediate speculation about commerce.
The film delivers laughs and action as Pegg and his co-star attempt to foil a strange conspiracy that takes them on a comedic adventure full of police chases and an epic final gunfight.
The gunfight took place in a forest near Danteshpuram village under Bheji police station limits when a team of District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma told PTI.
The killing took place as Baldwin and Hutchins were doing a “marking rehearsal” in a faux church structure where a gunfight scene was to be filmed.
Why is the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral so famous?
After exchanging shots, the suspect retreated into the store and they continued the gunfight inside the store, he said.
A jawan of the state police's District Reserve Guard (DRG) sustained injuries in a blast in a shell of Under Barrel Grenade Launcher (BGL) fired by Maoists during the gunfight, the official said.
Al-Roub, who witnessed the attack, said Israeli forces stormed the town around 11:30 a.m., prompting a gunfight between Palestinians and the forces that killed four.
An argument between two women led to a gunfight that left 11 people injured in a busy tourist area.
As they say, you cannot bring a knife to a gunfight!
Bhat went underground immediately after the attack, and was later killed in a gunfight.
Corporal Marvin Calvintos was hit in his abdomen during the two-minute gunfight.
Experience Gunfight on a larger scale.
He was wounded in the gunfight that ensued.
Common combinations with gunfight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the gunfight 21×
- in gunfight 20×
- gunfight with 11×
- to gunfight 8×
- gunfight at 6×
- gunfight the 4×
- gunfight between 4×
- gunfight in 3×
- gunfight that 3×
- gunfight took 3×