: a hostile encounter in which antagonists with guns shoot at each other
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There was a gunfight between the rival gangs.
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Losing a friend side by side in a gunfight often meant pursuing vengeance in his memory, taking care not to squander his martyrdom.
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Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
Police sources told Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV that the shooting involved a bounty hunter who was chasing someone, which led to a gunfight.
—Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
Another episode that runs upwards of an hour brings together virtually everyone in the show’s history for an event that seems to promise chaos and destruction—say, a car driven through a house, a gunfight—but goes somewhere wholly unexpected.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
The state Supreme Court has ruled that a Waterbury man deserves a new trial because his jury wasn’t told to consider his right of self defense before convicting him of manslaughter for shooting to death a bystander during a gunfight on a city street.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2025
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Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
Police sources told Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV that the shooting involved a bounty hunter who was chasing someone, which led to a gunfight.
—Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
Another episode that runs upwards of an hour brings together virtually everyone in the show’s history for an event that seems to promise chaos and destruction—say, a car driven through a house, a gunfight—but goes somewhere wholly unexpected.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
The state Supreme Court has ruled that a Waterbury man deserves a new trial because his jury wasn’t told to consider his right of self defense before convicting him of manslaughter for shooting to death a bystander during a gunfight on a city street.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for gunfight
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“Gunfight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gunfight. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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