How to Use gun down in a Sentence

gun down

phrasal verb
Definition of gun downnext
  • The two were gunned down in a vehicle parked in the area of 380 New Britain Ave.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Indeed, Lennon was gunned down at the entrance to the building in 1980.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Bishop and the seven others were lined up against a wall in the fort and gunned down.
    — Rennie Svirnovskiy, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • When Abu al-Rub rushed to help, he was also gunned down.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The couple had been gunned down in the den of their Beverly Hills home.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • But outrage has ensued over the prospect of gunning down deer from the sky.
    — Soumya Karlamangla Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Both were in office when Moïse was gunned down inside his home in the middle of the night.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The rap legend was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in 1996, one block off the Las Vegas strip.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 23 July 2023
  • Richmond, 2006: A man is shot in the face at the funeral of a teenager who was gunned down.
    — Elinor Simek, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Rappers flame out as if gunned down in one of their own cop-killer fantasies.
    — Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The series presents the before-and-after of the night the couple was gunned down in their Brentwood home by their two sons.
    — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There is a shocker of a death at the conclusion of tonight’s episode, as Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri) is gunned down.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 25 Nov. 2024
  • By the end of that first hour, Mitch had been gunned down by a gangster who lacked the proper respect for the man’s position.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 2 June 2024
  • In the second, Alvarez gunned down to Lindor when Adel broke for second.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • The shooter, Audrey Hale, 28, was gunned down by police.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • That album — his second — was released 16 days after the rap icon was gunned down to death.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2024
  • The previous leader, Boris Nemtsov, was gunned down within sight of the Kremlin in 2015.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Feb. 2024
  • That caller reported that people involved in the crash had fled, and that one had thrown a gun down a storm drain.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
  • The officers then put their guns down, and four officers approach the car, none of whom made the error.
    — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 31 July 2023
  • The vast majority of the more than 900 killed were civilians—gunned down in their homes or burned to death as their houses were set on fire.
    — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The officer drew his firearm and ordered Wilson to put the gun down, according to the release.
    — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 3 Sep. 2024
  • In the series, Keefe D admitted publicly to being in the Cadillac that gunned down Tupac for the first time.
    — Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The verdict brings to four the number of defendants found guilty of gunning down 31-year-old Efraim Gordon.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
  • But the training would have led you to believe that every day officers were being gunned down on the streets.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • He was gunned down 10 days before the first round of the presidential election was set to take place on August 20.
    — Jonny Hallam, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
  • She’s knocked on doors in the north side neighborhood where he was gunned down, hoping to find surveillance footage of the shooting.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 6 May 2024
  • Where are their demands for hearings as our children are gunned down in their classrooms?
    — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2024
  • Every time a gangster is gunned down or a car bomb goes off in the streets of Corsica, the local channel flashes footage of the crime scene.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 May 2024
  • Just before entering the hotel, Thompson was gunned down from behind.
    — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The contestants play elaborate, lethal versions of children’s games, with the losing players being gunned down by a team of armed enforcers in bright pink jumpsuits.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024

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