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.