Wondering how to use Gunslinger in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as gunman or liquidator.
Gunslinger meaning
- A person in the Old West who carried a gun and was an expert at quickly drawing it and firing.
- A person who behaves with the reckless bravado expected of someone who would duel with guns.
Synonyms of Gunslinger
Using Gunslinger
- The main meaning on this page is: A person in the Old West who carried a gun and was an expert at quickly drawing it and firing. | A person who behaves with the reckless bravado expected of someone who would duel with guns.
- Useful related words include: gunman, liquidator, murderer, shooter.
- In the example corpus, gunslinger often appears in combinations such as: the gunslinger, gunslinger and, as gunslinger.
Context around Gunslinger
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gunslinger
- In this selection, "gunslinger" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, west, magic, followed, stratos and entering stand out and add context to how "gunslinger" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include like a gunslinger and a legendary gunslinger in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gunslinger" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gunslinger
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The titular character is a gunslinger of Wild West proportions. (10 words)
Matt Dillon, Dodge City Marshall, stands in the street facing a gunslinger. (12 words)
Having done music for Gunslinger Stratos 2, she has quite the experience under her belt. (15 words)
Otis Miller is a legendary gunslinger in the world of Red Dead Redemption 2. It's easy to see why finding one of his elaborate firearms makes it fun for players to channel their vain side and shoot down enemies in style. (42 words)
Mando had previously interacted with some Tusken Raiders in the season 1 episode "The Gunslinger" — and it was in that first appearance that Disney recruited Deaf actor to bring some linguistic clarity to the sign language that helps them all communicate. (41 words)
Using variations on John Williams’ music from the films interspersed in original cues mimicking the operatic bombast of the film’s musical themes, the song espouses the merits of the show and its unnamed gunslinger. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
My personal favorite will always be “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed,” from “The Gunslinger,” the first book in Stephen King’s epic “Dark Tower” series.
Antonio Banderas stars in as a gunslinger who disguises himself as a musician as he travels from town to town, taking out anyone who works for the crime lord who killed his wife.
At one point, doctors were even unsure if they would allow Duke to complete his final picture, in which he played an old gunslinger with cancer opposite James Stewart.
Having done music for Gunslinger Stratos 2, she has quite the experience under her belt.
It seems like, no matter what the Bills coaches say to Allen, he keeps playing like a gunslinger.
The blue jay, on the other hand, blows into town like a Wild West gunslinger entering a saloon – everybody scatters.
The paths of a widow, a gunslinger, a harmonica player, and a rail baron henchman all collide following a murder over a piece of railroad land.
The titular character is a gunslinger of Wild West proportions.
This cowboy-like magic gunslinger used to be the Grand Magnus before Kirkan took over.
Have Gun - Will Travel follows the adventures of Paladin, a sophisticated gentleman gunslinger who works as a mercenary in the American Old West.
In every season he played at least 10 games, the gunslinger has surpassed 3,000 yards and 25 touchdowns leading up to this season.
Otis Miller is a legendary gunslinger in the world of Red Dead Redemption 2. It's easy to see why finding one of his elaborate firearms makes it fun for players to channel their vain side and shoot down enemies in style.
They’re constantly terrorizing her for ditching but thankfully this gunslinger has the moves to make them stop dead in their tracks.
Alice is a bartender Roland meets in Tull early on in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger.
And he wins nifty turns from the men in Beth's life, most notably Benny, the cocky young U.S. champion who carries himself like a gunslinger.
Mando had previously interacted with some Tusken Raiders in the season 1 episode "The Gunslinger" — and it was in that first appearance that Disney recruited Deaf actor to bring some linguistic clarity to the sign language that helps them all communicate.
The gunslinger mentality will never go away but to be this far into his career and still have his footwork be so poor is really inexcusable.
While Book had relentlessly pursued Skinner, the gunslinger fatally poisoned Book's fiance as their friendship devolved into a mutually-held hatred.
Matt Dillon, Dodge City Marshall, stands in the street facing a gunslinger.
Using variations on John Williams’ music from the films interspersed in original cues mimicking the operatic bombast of the film’s musical themes, the song espouses the merits of the show and its unnamed gunslinger.
Common combinations with gunslinger
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the gunslinger 8×
- gunslinger and 3×
- as gunslinger 2×
- gunslinger who 2×
- old gunslinger 2×
- like gunslinger 2×
- is gunslinger 2×
- gunslinger has 2×
- legendary gunslinger 2×