Explore Gunned through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Gunned meaning
simple past and past participle of gun
Using Gunned
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of gun
- In the example corpus, gunned often appears in combinations such as: gunned down, was gunned, were gunned.
Context around Gunned
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 14 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gunned
- In this selection, "gunned" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, machine, shot, armstrong and down stand out and add context to how "gunned" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after militants gunned down 260 and agos was gunned down in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gunned" sits close to words such as analytica, bauer and camouflage, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gunned
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The seven victims were machine-gunned and shot-gunned. (9 words)
Detroit man, 33, gunned down and killed by cops after. (10 words)
Armstrong gunned down the 25-year-old Wilson in a jealous rage. (12 words)
Hallaert’s uncle identified his nephew as the shooter and said the family is struggling to understand what happened on Monday night, when Hallaert gunned down multiple victims – his own children among them – before taking his own life. (38 words)
Dink, a prominent journalist and the editor-in-chief of the weekly Agos, was gunned down in broad daylight in front of his office by Samast, who was then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout. (37 words)
Dana Abuqamar, president of Manchester Friends of Palestine, was interviewed by Sky News during a pro-Hamas event in the city on Sunday - a day after militants gunned down 260 innocent civilians at a music festival. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
The seven victims were machine-gunned and shot-gunned.
Armstrong gunned down the 25-year-old Wilson in a jealous rage.
A survivor of the rave massacre, where more than 300 people partying near the Gaza Strip were gunned down by Hamas terrorists, said women were “raped next to the dead bodies of their friends”.
Chilling, new surveillance video has emerged of a person appearing to run from the scene where New Jersey Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was gunned down in her SUV last week.
Craig was gunned down in the Elk Road area between 3:30 and 4:30 a.m. that day, and at this time, no arrests have been made.
Dana Abuqamar, president of Manchester Friends of Palestine, was interviewed by Sky News during a pro-Hamas event in the city on Sunday - a day after militants gunned down 260 innocent civilians at a music festival.
Detectives believe Sahaira Delucca, 28, of Hartford was in the getaway car used by the man suspected to have gunned down 18-year-old Julius Rivera on Jan.
Detroit man, 33, gunned down and killed by cops after.
Dink, a prominent journalist and the editor-in-chief of the weekly Agos, was gunned down in broad daylight in front of his office by Samast, who was then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout.
Earlier on Wednesday, a revenue collector simply identified as ‘Mopol’, was said to have been gunned down around Okhoro junction by new Benin.
Hallaert’s uncle identified his nephew as the shooter and said the family is struggling to understand what happened on Monday night, when Hallaert gunned down multiple victims – his own children among them – before taking his own life.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a 45-year-old Canadian citizen who had been wanted by India for years, was gunned down outside the temple he led in the city of Surrey.
He addressed the media from the sanctuary of Emanuel AME Church, where nine Black worshippers were gunned down during a Bible study in 2015 by a white supremacist.
He was gunned down last Wednesday when he went to tend to his cow.
He went on to claim he saw Mr Teoh's family cowering nearby, frozen by the trauma of seeing him gunned down in front of them.
I don’t think these people give a hoot about the victims, the six people gunned down in cold blood by Audrey/Aiden Hale.
In 2015, Joan Kagezi, a prosecutor was gunned down in Kiwatule, a suburb in Kampala.
In September 2017, the progressive journalist and publisher Gauri Lankesh was gunned down returning to her home from work.
It’s been 24 hours since members of the Lewiston, Maine community were rocked to their core after police say 18 people were gunned down in cold blood at two seperate locations Wednesday night.
Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng is presiding over the murder trial of the former footballer Senzo Meyiwa, who was gunned down at the Vosloorus home of his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo on the evening of October 26, 2014.
Common combinations with gunned
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: