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How to use machine-gun in a sentence

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He struggled self-consciously through his polite talk in French rather than let loose his usual machine-gun diatribes.
Almost immediately there was a sustained burst of machine-gun fire just up the road from us here.
Although already wounded, he left the comparative safety of his position and made a daring charge against the machine-gun emplacement.
In the foreground is the.50-calibre machine-gun of the ship's close-in weapons system and its two-person crew, standing to and ready for action.
Then I was told a machine-gun platoon in the Duke of Cornwall's 7th Battalion needed a man trained on a Lewis gun.
The rat-a-tat-tat of the brown sicklebill could be likened to machine-gun fire.
Rockets lit up the sky as thunderflashes, flying earth, acrid smoke and the chatter of machine-gun fire filled the air night after night.
Usually about six feet wide and seven feet deep, the trenches were guarded by barbed wire and machine-gun posts.
As with the machine-gun platform, the turntable and trunnions are intact, but the gun itself is missing.
He later went out to film the damage and was following a taxi that looked like it had been shot up with a machine-gun.
The crackle of heavy machine-gun fire echoed across the capital and allied aircraft were heard overhead.
If infantry attacks on foot, defending troops cut off infantry from tanks and destroy it with machine-gun and automatic rifle fire.
Three hours later a second Chinook sent to rescue him was hit by machine-gun fire and another rocket-propelled grenade.
Our giggling stopped with a burst followed by an answering burst of machine-gun fire coming from the river about fifty yards away.
Batteries and small groups of infantry were attacked with machine-gun fire.
In World War II, anxious bomber crewmembers advised their gunners to use up the entire 27-foot-long machine-gun ammo belt on a persistent target.
He lasted just 24 days at Gallipoli before he was killed by machine-gun fire.
A burst of machine-gun fire from one of the tanks slammed into a wall a few metres away.
Our sergeant led our platoon across Crete displaying great bravery and single-handedly taking out German machine-gun positions.
It has been my observation that most of the broadcasts are presented at machine-gun rate, with almost incomprehensible diction and enunciation.
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A machine-gun was mounted on board and several bombs were also to be carried.
The previous day two wounded Turks, a machine-gun officer and a Red Crescent orderly, had arrived in the aid-post.
To-day you couldn't get me out of Kentucky with a machine-gun!
He listened to shells whistle by and the whipcrack of machine-gun bullets.
Direct hits were very rare, but on one occasion I had the satisfaction of seeing a machine-gun hurled over the Turkish parados.
The slopes were swept by machine-gun and rifle fire, and the beds of the wadis were enfiladed.
West of ginchy two German companies attacked the British trenches and were driven off by machine-gun fire.
Each trench system was plentifully marked with signboards and many open machine-gun positions were sited and marked.
Earl and Leon held the machine-gun ready for instant action.
He noted machine-gun emplacements cunningly hidden from the view of the British and listening posts placed well out in No Man's Land.
Again adjusting his sights he took a long-range shot at a distant machine-gun crew to his right.
They hung out their washings where machine-gun bullets could aerate them.
And very faint now, but very distinct through the hot, quiet air, one heard the whirr of a machine-gun that was presently stilled, and an intermittent cracking of rifles.
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