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US
/ˈɡənˌfaɪt/
]
[ UK /ɡˈʌnfaɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈʌnfaɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
How To Use gunfight In A Sentence
- The gunfight takes place in the dark, as it did in Stagecoach. The Times Literary Supplement
- The peace-loving citizens of Stodge City need a hero to save them from vicious gunfighter The Rumpo Kid.
- It's a little bit like holding up a bouquet of flowers in a gunfight. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- Western heroes are often lawmen, ranchers, army officers, or a fast-draw gunfighter.
- During the gunfight a fire broke out which immediately engulfed the neighboring houses.
- Wordlessly, Joe turned and walked a few paces, setting the distance for the gunfight.
- Tombstone, an easy day trip from Tucson, does however offer one vision of Arizona's pioneer days: clapboard and adobe buildings, and, of course, re-enacted gunfights.
- Come up with a case where a Western gunfighter actually undertook a gunfight with a revolver in each hand.
- All of these men, along with gunfighters, banditos, soldiers, Indians, lawmen, saloon girls, even ladies dressed in the height of fashion, gathered for one purpose.