How to Use revolver in a Sentence

revolver

noun
  • Bullets from the crime scene were the same as the ones in his revolver.
    — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The man grabbed the woman, held a revolver to her neck and pulled the trigger.
    — Michelle Hunter | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Gun fire is heard and a revolver can be seen next to the suspect.
    — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The revolver was in a holster that didn’t have a strap over the hammer.
    — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The older, 11 or 12, holds a revolver aimed at your left eye.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
  • About 5,000 of the locks are trigger locks for revolvers.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The three men pointed a revolver at the man and stole his wallet and truck keys.
    — Aidan Wohl, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
  • The boy ran away and tossed a revolver on the ground on Miles Avenue, the report says.
    — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • He’d been shot in the face with a revolver that left no shell casings.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Smith & Wesson snub-nosed revolver and put it on the counter.
    — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 22 June 2020
  • As Lake stood in the street, Kepler pulled his revolver and shot Lake twice.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The man shot the bear with a .44 Magnum revolver, troopers said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2021
  • Cox fired his service revolver and the truck crashed two blocks away.
    — Ben Austen, The New Republic, 21 June 2018
  • The revolver and the pistol, both of which Blessing said she had not used since the 1970s, were found in the bedroom.
    — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • The man picked up the revolver and started spinning the cylinder.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 21 June 2019
  • At least one of the rounds from the small caliber revolver struck the 14-year-old, and a knife was later found at the scene of the shooting.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The suspect pulled a revolver from his pocket and shot Brown twice.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The man raises his shirt to show a revolver tucked into his jeans.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Gill was lying on his back in a bedroom with a revolver next to him.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2021
  • The sheriff said three guns were seized from the scene, including the Colt revolver.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Chapman shoots Lennon in the back four times with a .38 caliber revolver.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Hall pulled out a silver revolver and the woman told him to put it away, the report says.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • One of the rioters fell to his knees and placed his revolver against the pillar of the building and shot at him.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Police found the revolver stuffed under the couch cushions in the living room.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
  • One of the sales, for a revolver, occurred on April 27, according to the complaint.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • At least one firearm, a revolver, was found, police said.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The revolver was in Hinds’s bag, under a laptop, Greenidge told the station.
    — Michael Laris, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Maybe the firearm that was used was a revolver, so there would be no casings left behind.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Some went to a gun store in town and bought all the revolvers in stock, in preparation for another attack.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • During the rehearsal for a scene in which Baldwin's character was supposed to draw a gun and point it directly at the camera, a live round was discharged by the actor from a prop revolver.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025

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