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Definition of gunfight in English: gunfightnounˈɡʌnfʌɪtˈɡənˌfaɪt A fight involving an exchange of fire with guns. Example sentencesExamples - Ritzy social clubs, walled-in mansions and private schools are the norm for the wealthy, while the poor live in vast slums where unemployment runs high and gunfights are common.
- The army said he fired at troops, and a gunfight ensued.
- An armed group drove by and fired at policemen on duty, starting a gunfight, the local police said.
- The final gunfight is delightful, though, literally a gun fight.
- He was wounded twice in different gunfights, run over by a smuggler, fought in World War I and lived a hair-raising life on the Prohibition-era Mexican border.
- On any given night, the two cops will respond to gunfights, stabbings, thefts and family fights.
- From then on in, it's all clever schemes, gunfights, inter-agency politics and stuff getting blown up, all done very gritty and realistic like.
- The rest of the less-than-TV-quality detective action story unfolds in gunfights, car chases, explosions, foot chases, fistfights, and a speedboat chase.
- It will tell tales of frontier gunfights, buffalo hunts, Indian fights, trail drives, and stagecoaches.
- Yes, there's better dialogue in swordplay than in gunfights.
- During a pitched gunfight in a hotel, he shoots one opponent, walks past him, pauses and shoots again at point-blank range.
- An alleged racist remark during a fight over a dog led to a street gunfight that claimed two lives in West Bank here at the weekend.
- The gunfight was started by a group of three militants who fired shots from the roof of a school near the Dutch camp, the police said.
- But you can expect gunfights and fistfights galore.
- By issuing a red alert, you can get workers, guards and other employees to engage in hand to hand combat (or gunfights, if armed) with the intruders.
- During the gunfight a fire broke out which immediately engulfed the neighboring houses.
- Of course there are horses, gunfights, fistfights, saloons, and all the typical stuff you'd expect to find in a Western, but this film is more than that.
- Come up with a case where a Western gunfighter actually undertook a gunfight with a revolver in each hand.
- A rag-tag band of adventurers try stop them in a breakneck-paced story blending chases and gunfights with long discussions about business, technology and natural history.
- If I have it out and put it back in the holster under some duress I want it to stay put in case it goes from a gunfight to a fistfight and back to a gunfight.
Derivatives nounˈɡʌnfʌɪtəˈɡənˌfaɪdər While all gunfighters certainly were not bandits, and all bandits likewise were not gunfighters, there is no question that Jesse James belonged to both categories. Example sentencesExamples - But it really becomes a contest between gunfighters.
- The media coverage makes him an ‘American hero’ overnight, but like any gunfighter pressed back into action to protect his community he eschews the spotlight.
- All the people of the North West Frontier are gunfighters.
- In fact, I re-holster it with an extra spin like a gunfighter, without even really thinking about it.
Definition of gunfight in US English: gunfightnounˈɡənˌfaɪtˈɡənˌfīt A fight involving an exchange of fire with guns. Example sentencesExamples - During the gunfight a fire broke out which immediately engulfed the neighboring houses.
- Of course there are horses, gunfights, fistfights, saloons, and all the typical stuff you'd expect to find in a Western, but this film is more than that.
- The final gunfight is delightful, though, literally a gun fight.
- But you can expect gunfights and fistfights galore.
- Come up with a case where a Western gunfighter actually undertook a gunfight with a revolver in each hand.
- It will tell tales of frontier gunfights, buffalo hunts, Indian fights, trail drives, and stagecoaches.
- The army said he fired at troops, and a gunfight ensued.
- Yes, there's better dialogue in swordplay than in gunfights.
- The rest of the less-than-TV-quality detective action story unfolds in gunfights, car chases, explosions, foot chases, fistfights, and a speedboat chase.
- On any given night, the two cops will respond to gunfights, stabbings, thefts and family fights.
- An armed group drove by and fired at policemen on duty, starting a gunfight, the local police said.
- He was wounded twice in different gunfights, run over by a smuggler, fought in World War I and lived a hair-raising life on the Prohibition-era Mexican border.
- During a pitched gunfight in a hotel, he shoots one opponent, walks past him, pauses and shoots again at point-blank range.
- By issuing a red alert, you can get workers, guards and other employees to engage in hand to hand combat (or gunfights, if armed) with the intruders.
- Ritzy social clubs, walled-in mansions and private schools are the norm for the wealthy, while the poor live in vast slums where unemployment runs high and gunfights are common.
- A rag-tag band of adventurers try stop them in a breakneck-paced story blending chases and gunfights with long discussions about business, technology and natural history.
- The gunfight was started by a group of three militants who fired shots from the roof of a school near the Dutch camp, the police said.
- An alleged racist remark during a fight over a dog led to a street gunfight that claimed two lives in West Bank here at the weekend.
- If I have it out and put it back in the holster under some duress I want it to stay put in case it goes from a gunfight to a fistfight and back to a gunfight.
- From then on in, it's all clever schemes, gunfights, inter-agency politics and stuff getting blown up, all done very gritty and realistic like.
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