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  • noun Plural form of gunshot.

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Examples

  • TAYLOR: We have not been able to confirm any gunshots, that is true.

    CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2008 2008

  • I do not like the idea of gunshots in front of the library.

    Tyrone Yates and Kimber Fender Respond To Loud Noise Complaint Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • We know hopefully less than 10, the police say, hostages inside, including the ambassador, and two people were injured when this siege began, not injured by gunshots, which is important, but locals did reported hearing gunshots when the incident began.

    CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2002 2002

  • I'm curious if it will fall deaf ears in the Middle East at this juncture, sort of muffled by the sound of shots, gunshots, that is.

    CNN Transcript May 21, 2001 2001

  • The three-page police report indicated he did so in the hope officers who were checking on the welfare of a drunken woman would race off to investigate the "gunshots," giving Rush the opportunity to take the woman home.

    Letter to the Editor 2009

  • The three-page police report indicated he did so in the hope officers who were checking on the welfare of a drunken woman would race off to investigate the "gunshots," giving Rush the opportunity to take the woman home.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • When a handful of people starting throwing stones and setting off sound grenades (no, they weren't "gunshots" as the Huffington Post breathlessly reported), the marchers handled it themselves, instructing the people responsible to leave the protest, which they promptly did.

    Memo to Danes: Even You Cannot Control This Summit 2009

  • When a handful of people starting throwing stones and setting off sound grenades (no, they weren't "gunshots" as the Huffington Post breathlessly reported), the marchers handled it themselves, instructing the people responsible to leave the protest, which they promptly did.

    Naomi Klein: Memo to Danes: Even You Cannot Control This Summit 2009

  • She captures everything from the historic session in which Basie made his first hit record, "One O'clock Jump," to a studio orchestra rendering Rossini's William Tell Overture into the theme song for "The Lone Ranger," complete with "gunshots" made by snapping mousetraps.

    When America Had a Soundtrack Eddie Dean 2008

  • That particular incident perhaps more typical of the many incidents that are happening around Iraq to U.S. soldiers, many incidents that aren't getting reported because they're incidents such as gunshots being fired at patrols, explosive devices going off.

    CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2003 2003

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