Get to know Revolver better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like pistol or handgun.
Revolver in a sentence
Related words
Revolver meaning
- A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
- Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
- Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
Using Revolver
- The main meaning on this page is: A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading. | Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism. | Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
- Useful related words include: six-gun, six-shooter, pistol, handgun.
- In the example corpus, revolver often appears in combinations such as: the revolver, revolver and, with revolver.
Context around Revolver
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Revolver
- In this selection, "revolver" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, loaded, spent, service, comes, round and capacity stand out and add context to how "revolver" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a loaded revolver at a and a loaded revolver in his. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "revolver" sits close to words such as accumulating, angie and armistice, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with revolver
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cool and threatening is a gangster smoking a cigarette, pointing a revolver round the room. (15 words)
Christmas was therefore fined $6,500 for possessing the revolver and $6,000 for the rifle. (16 words)
Officers seized the firearm, which was determined to be a revolver replica with pellets in the chamber. (17 words)
With a revolver, this is not necessary as none of the energy for cycling the revolver comes from the firing of the cartridge, but is supplied by the user either through cocking the hammer or, in a double-action design, by just squeezing the trigger. (45 words)
District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies filed charges following months of speculation as to whether she had evidence that Baldwin acted with criminal negligence when a revolver with which he was rehearsing fired a live round that killed Hutchins. (38 words)
He told officers that firing his revolver "was the last thing he wanted to do", but that he was "scared to death" because of Ralph's height and his own old age. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
If you test with a semi-auto for the license you can also carry a revolver, but if you test with a revolver that is all you can carry.
With a revolver, this is not necessary as none of the energy for cycling the revolver comes from the firing of the cartridge, but is supplied by the user either through cocking the hammer or, in a double-action design, by just squeezing the trigger.
A 24-year-old man was ordered to pay a $12,500 fine for the unlawful possession of a rifle and a revolver.
As the screaming Ms Korbel tried to keep Nee out, Cashman blindly fired a shot from his second weapon, a revolver, through the front door.
As we do not expect to make any further drawdowns on the revolver for our CapEx program, we feel very comfortable with our liquidity position as of today.
At one point, he futilely pulls out a spent revolver and tries to shoot off a couple rounds.
A woman who pointed a loaded revolver at a terrified victim, only for the gun to misfire, has been jailed.
Christmas was therefore fined $6,500 for possessing the revolver and $6,000 for the rifle.
Cool and threatening is a gangster smoking a cigarette, pointing a revolver round the room.
Despite the history of mental disorder, Das was issued a service revolver and appointed in-charge of a police post at Brajrajnagar where he shot dead Das.
District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies filed charges following months of speculation as to whether she had evidence that Baldwin acted with criminal negligence when a revolver with which he was rehearsing fired a live round that killed Hutchins.
Eventually, passengers who had known the father on board – he was now floating dead in the Atlantic with a loaded revolver in his pocket – identified them by their false name, Hoffman.
For liquidity, we ended 2022 with $745 million of cash on our balance sheet in addition to our undrawn $4 billion worth of revolver capacity.
He told officers that firing his revolver "was the last thing he wanted to do", but that he was "scared to death" because of Ralph's height and his own old age.
However, Councillor Paul Birch, who owns and runs Revolver Records on Goldthorn Hill, said he felt the building could be better used for a different purpose.
In the charges, two counts accuse Hunter Biden of having completed a form indicating he was not using illegal drugs when he bought a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018.
Joel shoots his revolver at one of the Clickers but runs out of ammo and has to reload.
Martin testified she saw Gay get out of the drivers seat to pick up Cummings’ revolver that was left on the ground.
Nansel stated also that one locally-fabricated revolver gun and seven rounds of 6.72mm ammunition were recovered from the suspects as exhibits.
Officers seized the firearm, which was determined to be a revolver replica with pellets in the chamber.
Common combinations with revolver
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the revolver 34×
- revolver and 22×
- with revolver 13×
- his revolver 11×
- and revolver 10×
- revolver in 9×
- revolver is 9×
- revolver that 7×
- revolver at 7×
- revolver was 7×