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How to use dum-dum in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word dum-dum? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He talks about attending the dum-dum convention in August, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Tarzan.
Should I email that dum-dum of a guy I know or just leave it in my draft folder?
Dougal is a dum-dum, which you will get in any job.
Among the ammunition were shotgun cartridges and dum-dum bullets.
The United Kingdom refused to sign Declaration III banning dum-dum bullets, wishing to retain the liberty of employing projectiles of sufficient efficacy against savage races.
Coated with black crumbs and custard, the zac streaked out of his mouth like a dum-dum and ricocheted off a tureen.
Dum-dum bullets, chemical and biological weapons are banned outright on the basis that the military benefits of their use can never be proportionate to the suffering caused.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is a humane wound, and infinitely less injurious than the Martini and dum-dum.
Northward, the city stretches away three long miles, with three more miles of suburbs beyond, to dum-dum and Barrackpore.
The bullet, fired at close range, had been almost as destructive as a dum-dum.
She carried a light, sporting .303, its magazine loaded with dum-dum cartridges.
I found a few hollow-nosed bullets, too, expanding like the dum-dum.
My gun was loaded with dum-dum bullets, specially prepared for bucks.
He knew this, he said, because the Dum-Dum always was danced in the light of Goro.
In a moment Tarzan and Taug would be torn to shreds that would later form the PIECE DE RESISTANCE of the savage orgy of a Dum-Dum.
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