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gunner

[ US /ˈɡənɝ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈʌnɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a serviceman in the artillery

How To Use gunner In A Sentence

  • When a concentration begins on a battery, either the gunners must go to their dugouts or run beyond the range of the shells until the "strafe" is over. My Second Year of the War
  • He became a Bren gunner and was taught to kill - a far cry from his Christian pacifist background.
  • Joe also spent time at an aerial machine-gunnery school where observers and gunners were trained.
  • There were three gunners, both front and rear of the plane and one in a bubble canopy half way down the fuselage.
  • The gunner virtually always sees the target directly through the gunsight or other sighting devices.
  • Door gunners also provide suppressive fire when inserting or extracting troops from hot landing zones.
  • The fighting officers learned to specialise: in navigation, gunnery and torpedoes.
  • To this end he demanded "unceasing" gunnery practice. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
  • The sudden compression of air as the rammer thrust with the fleece could explode the residues of unburnt powder that was caked to the breech walls, so a gunner, wearing a leather thumbstall, pressed his thumb over the vent to stop the airflow. Sharpe's Waterloo
  • Liverpool were seemingly assured of the title in 1989 when they needed only to avoid a two-goal defeat at home to the Gunners to lift the trophy.
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