RIFLE in a Sentence

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173 example sentences for RIFLE, such as:

1. The soldier jabbed a rifle into his ribs.
2. The soldier leveled his rifle at the target.
3. The soldiers keep a tight hold of the rifle.
4. Tod's grandfather taught him to shoot a rifle.
5. The hunter's rifle cracked and the deer fell dead.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIFLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rifle
 n.  shoulder firearm with a long barrel
Classic Sentence: (153 in 11 pages)
1  With those precious twin lines of iron in danger, the Confederates left their desperately defended rifle pits and, under the starlight, made a forced march to Resaca by the short, direct road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  On the steep sides of the mountain they dug their rifle pits and on the towering heights they planted their batteries.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  Captain Randall and the occupants of the carriage smothered smiles at this naive explanation of rifle pits.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  We have to strengthen the fortifications of Atlanta with more miles of rifle pits, and the General can't spare any men from the front to do it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  These great earth-works were connected with rifle pits and they ran, mile after mile, completely encircling the city.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  He assaulted the Yankees fiercely at Peachtree Creek, hurling his men from their rifle pits against the blue lines where Sherman's men outnumbered him more than two to one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Sherman was circling the town like a wrestler seeking a fresh hold on an opponent's body, and Hood did not remain behind his rifle pits waiting for the Yankees to attack.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  Not even the crack of a rifle had sounded since sunset and the world seemed far away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  Visitors had fallen off to nothing this last week, for every man who could walk was in the rifle pits or chasing the Yankees about the countryside near Jonesboro.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  He was as small as Scarlett, so small his rifle was almost as tall as he was, and his grime-smeared face was unbearded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  One, a tall spare man with a black beard that hung to his belt, silently handed his own rifle and that of the boy to the other.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  It shore was good to be a free man with a rifle in my hand again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  As the sergeant stepped into the room, his rifle at trail, Rhett, evidently trying to steady himself, put a hand on the captain's arm and, with difficulty, focused his eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
14  Thereby the weapon is instantly at hand to its hurler, who snatches it up as readily from its rest as a backwoodsman swings his rifle from the wall.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.
15  The white man seemed to take counsel from their customs, and, relinquishing his grasp of the rifle, he also remained silent and reserved.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  She says the patrolmen rounded them up at the village school and beat them with rifle butts.
2  The soldiers keep a tight hold of the rifle.
3  They shot him at point blank range with an automatic rifle.
4  The army used the land as a training area and rifle range.
5  Tod's grandfather taught him to shoot a rifle.
6  Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel.
7  The soldier leveled his rifle at the target.
8  The soldier disconnected a rifle into parts before cleaning it.
9  The soldier jabbed a rifle into his ribs.
10  The soldier fired the rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags.
11  The hunter's rifle cracked and the deer fell dead.
12  I mean, is it really possible for every soldier in the world to drop his or her rifle and pick up a tennis racket instead?
13  I knew that weapons would not come in amiss, and I re-entered his room to get his rifle and shot-gun.
14  A small metal knob on the muzzle of a firearm, such as a rifle, used for sighting.
15  There is a certain knack to lapping a barrel, not everyone is able to successfully do it, but if you can, it will definitely improve the performance of any rifle.