Antonyms for machine gunma·chine gun

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Princeton's WordNet

1. machine gunverb

   a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)

2. machine gunverb

   shoot with a machine gun

How to use machine gun in a sentence?

1. Teacher Saimoni Nainoca:

   We never thought the storm was going to be as bad as it was. This was a roaring and damaging cyclone, the roof was rattling like a machine-gun. It was like a battlefield.

2. Mark Galeotti:

   Usually it is relatively easy to get a pistol or anything up to an assault rifle, but it is much harder to get an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) or a machine gun or the boring things like spare parts for the above. You actually need to have a proper war for these sorts of things to become available and, lo and behold, you have a proper war.

3. Smiley Martin:

   That firearm was modified from its original condition with a component that made it capable of firing automatic gunfire and would classify it as a machine gun by California law.

4. Bado Ahmed:

   Since early morning we have been trapped inside homes. The only thing we can hear is the warplanes bombing and machine gun barrages, we are desperately waiting to be liberated from Islamic State.

5. Chris Norman:

   I saw a man with what I think was an AK-47 -- anyway, it was some kind of machine gun or submachine gun, my first reaction was to sit down and hide. Then I heard one guy, an American, say, 'Go get him' and I heard another American say, 'Don't you do that, buddy' or something like that.

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