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How to use smoking gun in a sentence

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To date, this has not dissuaded the media or the activists who are determined to find a smoking gun.
Yes, I think ultimately the White House is going to have to show some concrete evidence, a smoking gun.
Each new revelation was the smoking gun that was going to end his presidency.
Certainly, there was no evidence given today that was really a legal smoking gun, if you will.
Some have suggested there is collusion in the market, and I would suggest that trying to find a smoking gun is very difficult.
Community workers sought smoking gun evidence of police harassment of itinerant youth and they say it's in the form of a big ugly pile of tickets.
The first thing we found is there is not a smoking gun when it comes to differences.
Figuratively speaking, we should not need to be caught with a smoking gun in order to be found guilty.
He was challenging the nuclear claim made by the vice president, which was central to the argument, the case for war, the smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud.
The onus is on Hussein to show compliance, not on the UN to find a smoking gun.
As the last of a conga line of doctors administering to Jackson, he is the most logical loser of smoking gun musical chairs.
In terms of Iraq, the Prime Minister's fairly consistent position is that he must see a smoking gun.
It knows full well that the Competition Bureau cannot do anything without a smoking gun.
There have been at least 11 or 12 prosecutions with convictions over the last dozen years or so, but it is to find that smoking gun.
In other words, this was the smoking gun part of the equation.
Long bow,' stuff cuts little ice without an actual smoking gun, if you pardon the mixed metaphors.
Is Donald Rumsfeld's smug smile a bluff, or has he seen a smoking gun?
While some have suggested that they wish to see a smoking gun in terms of proof, Mr. Blix put this issue to rest on Monday in his statement to the Security Council.
What we're dealing with here is not an isolated instance of criminality where you need the smoking gun or the fingerprints or that decisive piece of evidence.
Even though I am obviously working hard on trying to find if this is the smoking gun or not, if I can be rationally and reasonably satisfied that it's not, then obviously we'll put our attentions on another direction.
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He had the smoking gun in his hands, for he hadn't the wit to get rid of it.
Davis he shot, and saw him sway and fall flat, with a smoking gun in his hand.
Brennan was upon one knee near the central window, a smoking gun in his hand, a red welt showing ghastly across his cheek.
Rathburn slipped his smoking gun into his holster and mounted noiselessly.
Jim thrust his smoking gun into his belt and caught Craig by the arm.
Their article became a smoking gun to feminists who saw implants as a patriarchal plot.
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