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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unholster.

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Examples

  • Â The woman prays to her lord as Jonah unholsters his gun.

    Review: Jonah Hex #50 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • I want the moron who claimed this was an accident to explain how someone accidentally unholsters a weapon, aims it, and shoots an unarmed, subdued man in the back.

    Matthew Yglesias » Oscar Grant 2009

  • Real police, who are trusted by the public to wield great power, even the power of violence, are held to very high standards of conduct -- in some jurisdictions, every time a policeman unholsters his sidearm, he must fill out a report.

    Human rights commissions in the news - Ezra Levant 2008

  • Real police, who are trusted by the public to wield great power, even the power of violence, are held to very high standards of conduct -- in some jurisdictions, every time a policeman unholsters his sidearm, he must fill out a report.

    Ezra Levant: April 2008 Archives 2008

  • Blogging Dirty: Troy unholsters his calculator, hooks his Xbox to a solar generator, and charts the Falcons Madden 11 ratings from so many angles, though he does so with more toughness than swagger.

    The Falcoholic 2010

  • Blogging Dirty: Troy unholsters his calculator, hooks his Xbox to a solar generator, and charts the Falcons Madden 11 ratings from so many angles, though he does so with more toughness than swagger.

    The Falcoholic 2010

  • The Taser Cam is activated as soon as the officer unholsters the Taser and turns off the safety, Tuttle says.

    USATODAY.com Weather News 2010

  • One of the officers kneels on Grant as another officer stands up, tugs at his gun, unholsters it and fires a shot into Grant's back.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • One of the officers kneels on Grant as another officer stands, tugs at his gun, unholsters it and fires a shot into Grant's back.

    CNN.com 2009

  • ~ cho - kuh - king ~ plunging along an invisible Chisolm Trail as Thunder unholsters its sixguns for a showdown with Lightning.

    Stampede! 2009

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