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machine-gunners

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  • noun Plural form of machine-gunner.

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Examples

  • The Turkish machine-gunners played very freely across the Dorsets 'front.

    Narrative Strategies 2009

  • Over the weekend, Tripoli's reported response to the demonstrations included crushing two people alive in their car with a tank; machine-gunners mowing down mourners at a funeral; and flying in sub-Saharan mercenaries to assist in the government's murders.

    Put Down the Mad Dog George Grant 2011

  • Several times I had to dodge into ditches and hide in holes to avoid being seen by the Japanese machine-gunners who consider it sport to mow down people on the highways.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • It looked like all the Holy Warriors on the far side of the shuttle were also dead or wounded ... but the snipers had gotten only three of the four machine-gunners inside.

    The first sentence I wrote today... Edward Willett 2006

  • The attacking machine-gunners had been killed, depriving the raiders of their heaviest armaments.

    Thunder and Ashes Z.A. Recht 2008

  • Then four black armoured cars, each with three machine-gunners on the roof, raced out of the Green Zone through a heavily fortified exit, followed by sand-coloured American Humvees and more armoured cars.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Stephen Retherford 2008

  • It looked like all the Holy Warriors on the far side of the shuttle were also dead or wounded ... but the snipers had gotten only three of the four machine-gunners inside.

    Archive 2006-11-05 Edward Willett 2006

  • He heard the Rook's own machine-gunners opening up at something.

    Sun of Suns 2006

  • As a demonstration of the tenacity of the German machine-gunners.

    11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 John 2003

  • CHARD DUWAISH, Iraq, Nov. 28 - As marines aboard fast patrol boats roared up the Euphrates on a dawn raid on Sunday, images pressed in of another American war where troops moved up wide rivers on camouflaged boats, with machine-gunners nervously scanning riverbanks for the hidden enemy.

    Archive 2004-11-01 2004

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