How To Use Rifle In A Sentence

If you've been to the crossroads, and made the deal, and got the mojo — which turns out to be dependent on a great deal of hard work and practice, just like sleight-of-hand — wouldn't you maybe get a trifle riled by that kind of misjudgment from time to time? Cops and Robbers
Hurrah!" came from the right, and the cheer was taken up from the left, while _crack, crack, crack_, rifles were being brought well into play. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
In wartime, heroes come into being in times of crisis; in peacetime, they come into existence by doing trifles in everyday life.
The soldier fired the rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags.

He expressed his racial hatred for everyone, especially OBama making veiled death threats, spoke of other dangerous topics etc … and then offered to sell me a mosser rifle as he was buying a a whole shippment of them. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.
One of the robbers stood on the victim's head while the second rifled through his pockets, stealing a credit card and £30 cash.
The 660 is a short light powerful rifle not much harder to carry than a hogleg revolver. Some Odds and Ends
They rode sturdy Mongolian ponies, wore distinctive fur caps, and carried sabers, pistols, and rifles.
Frank will have access to 18 separate weapons, ranging from pistols and rifles to submachine guns and shotguns.
Our brave front withstood unshrinkingly the heavy fire of rifles and cannon concentrated upon it.
This rifle ranges over a mile.
Adapters and wads are available for most handgun and rifle calibers, and 12-gauge shotguns.
As for the remaining four songs, 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' and 'Tea In The Sahara' are doomy ciphers, the former possibly about marriage, the latter open to a handful of interpretations, none of them exactly upbeat, while 'Synchronicity I' is a trifle explaining the title concept and the monster hit 'Every Breath You Take', is ostensibly a trite love song with it's icy and obsessive core just barely concealed. Synchronicity
The crew tried to drive it away, and one man fired a rifle at it.
His background is a trifle dubious, to say the least.
Lord of the Rings, the tale of a pacifist-turned-assassin lugging a rifle to a dictator's heartland in order to get off that one critical shot. Zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery
Two-thirds of the output from its factories is for civilian use - washing machines, prams and hunting rifles, for instance.
One usually thinks of the paradigmatic soldier is the front line rifleman, or maybe a guy buttoned up in a tank.
If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return. The Essays
My task is to winnow through what remains after the onslaught and pick up unconsidered trifles they might have missed. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
Also bear in mind that probably most shots we take are 200-400 yards which is point blank or near abouts that with any flat shooting rifle. Best caliber for 600+ yard shots
Save for the rifles, there appeared to be no difference between exhausted captive and wearied captor.
And so he had grown in the warmth of his parents 'love, trained in what we call outdoor sports, but which are life itself to the Arab, until at fourteen no one could surpass him in running or horsemanship or spear-throwing, whilst with rifle or revolver he could clip the hair off the top of a man's head, the which strenuous accomplishments he balanced in passing his leisure moments in the gentle arts of verse-making and even music, in spite of the latter being condemned by religion; also did he learn to converse in foreign tongues. Desert Love
Drummond hobbled off, returning with a cigar in his mouth and an automatic rifle in his hands.
The legislature also passed the National Rifle Association's bill to prohibit cities and counties from adopting local gun-control ordinances, the same measure I had vetoed in 1989.
WIth a $50 coat of teflon, it may be my next working rifle for high end work (the bluing is thin). A Top-Notch Working Rifle: David Petzal Reviews the Montana Rifle Company Model 1999 Ridgeline
Shooting far, really far, in the mountains at inanimate targets with safe backstops is challenging and downright fascinating, even to the most practiced rifleman.
He wore a mottled camouflage jacket and a lightweight stetson and carried an automatic rifle.
Two new tactical rifles are now available from companies which were once known as handgun manufacturers.
The witch doctor's eyes were well blackened, and his temper none of the best; for he quarrelled with the chief over the possession of Wertz's rifle, and took more than his share of the part-sack of beans. WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
This accomplished, they must then bespeed them to the top of the hill again, where two loaded rifles yet remained, in whose leaden bullets lay, as they trusted, the golden chance of victory. Burl
Those who advanced under the rifle fire of the Marines who had remained in position did not fall.
The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline.
Coffee leads men to trifle away their time.
On the rifle range, Wesley purposely missed the target on his first few tries.
Highly skilled Sharpshooter with scoped M 1903 Rifle, effective against all Infantry. Can use camouflage ability.
But as soon as the rifle had flashed there was the _fad, fad, fad_ of hurried steps, something whizzed in at the window, and with Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris
She made a mental note to rifle her deposit account to buy a new one.
He slid the bolt back on top of his rifle allowing the first bullet to rest in the chamber.
The group decries the name "assault weapon" and refers to high-powered guns as "modern sporting rifles. Chron.com Chronicle
The French had a good breech-loading rifle, the chassepot, also the mitrailleuse, a primitive machine gun, but their muzzle-loading artillery was outclassed by Prussian breech-loaders.
We've had air and soft air pistols, air rifles, blank firers and replica guns surrendered, which is an excellent result.
Pete wanted something a little more elaborate and chose a custom rifle reamed to 7x57.
Men sat on top, with rifles cradled on their laps.
The main event will include pistol, rifle and sporting clay courses.
Teenage fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles lurked on bridges or in derelict areas near the main highway leading west toward the embattled town of Fallujah.
The tactical air assault force can be reinforced with a motorized rifle battalion.
Eat In nearby Boshum, the Millstream's millstream.com £50 tasting menu features roquefort mousse with pickled pears, smoked haddock and leek ravioli, summer fruit and elderflower trifle. Five great beach weekends
I don't own a Sako (tikka is Sako's cheaper line) but I would bet this would be a rifle I would really fall in love with. Tikka T3 Review and Comments
He was cheered to the echo and, a trifle remarkably, joyously, and continually, waved to the thousands who were acclaiming him.
Sportsmen and women took part in a total of 10 sports which ranged from archery to snooker and rifle shooting to swimming.
First, if the rifle butt grasps not tightly, when gun violent beat, the rifle butt could hit finger's joint many, the number of times very easy to create the damage.
I well remember what a tedious job it was to drill and tap a rifle receiver for a scope base, but tang sights often used existing holes and could be installed with ease.
Military doctrine of the time emphasized massed rifle fire, downplaying marksmanship.
Many recruits were worried about the kick of a rifle.
Virtually all the guards carried at least a side-arm and, usually, a semi-automatic rifle.
For here was a trailing line of jog-trotting dusky shapes, some crouching on dwarf ponies half their size, some trailing lances, lodge-poles, rifles, women and children after them, all moving with a monotonous rhythmic motion as marked as the military precision of the other cavalcade, and always on a parallel line with it. Tales of Trail and Town
The National Rifle Association and other advocates of firearms rights are expected to vigorously oppose these proposals.
Requesting the congregation to leave, he sent his son to fetch an air rifle.
Teflon is very durable but will burn off if you get the temperatures too high (take a look at your Teflon coated cookware), though that is not likely to happen on a regular use hunting rifle. What is more rust resistant stainless steel or the newer teflon coatings?
His trainer wasn't sure what trauma pushed him over the edge — the explosions around the camp perhaps, or gunfire from the rifle range. Shell-Shocked Dog of War Finds a Home With the Family of a Fallen Hero
You're a rifleman, a cook, a signalman... it doesn't matter how much you're promoted up the ranks: you always wear your specialty badge until the day they make you a General. Peter Samuelson: Leadership Is Not Just for Experts!
The shortage of rifles necessitated that the manual of arms be practiced in shifts, and six hours of daily drill in the melting snow turned the camp grounds into a bog.
They armed him with a rifle.
They spoke of incidents of violence, which included a disabled woman twice narrowly escaping injury from a youth firing an air rifle and a pensioner's pet dog being shot dead.
The Hawken brothers used the Kentucky as a model for their guns, but the barrels were much shorter (26 to 38 inches), because their users had discovered that a long-barreled rifle, regardless of its advantages, was a damned unhandy thing to hunt with from horseback. Why Shorter is Better
He just walked around like a dummy with the rest of us with an awkward scope on his rifle.
There were cold meats of every kind, huge bowls of mixed salads, large desserts, trifles, jellies tarts and mince pies, and also some very interesting looking hors d' oeuvres.
He attached the little remote device for his ship onto the rifle.
There were also two dummy rocket propelled grenades and a dismantled self-loading rifle.
The next year he produced only a few medical trifles, but in 1557 he brought out two other scientific works which he characterizes as admirable -- one the _Ars parva curandi_, and the other a treatise _De Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
I lowered the rifle and saw that he had stopped and was standing broadside looking at us.
Sharpe aimed through the bars of the balcony's balustrade, lining the notch in the rifle's backsight and the leaf of the foresight on Aksel Bang's face. Sharpe's Prey
The big man brought his rifle about with blinding speed, sighted along the rail and optical sight, and let off a round.
My mother was a great snoop, she'd call it ‘cleaning up’ and I'd come home from a weekend at my Dad's to find she'd rifled through my things.
You go through the different floors of that factory and come to where they are making big electrical generators and you see guards around with their rifles because Russia's bogey is that somebody is trying to copy them all the time and steal their secrets. Our Times Viewed From a World Perspective
Then he disassembled the rifle and cleaned it with rags and a long, thin brush.
Jamie Barrow concluded the scoring when he scampered onto Smith's pass to rifle the ball past Knowles.
The eight riflemen, without ammunition but still supporting the machine gun, fixed bayonets and waited.
I have one of those pocket knives, with screw drivers, blade, etc. and I keep a extra round of ammo (wrapped in foam rubber) in the but end of my syn stocked rifles just in case I run out of ammo. Start a Survival Fire With a Bullet
The riflery event basic category is the rifle (fire), the pistol (fire), runs the target, throws the target (fire) and the bidirectional flying saucer (fire).
They fired several rounds from handguns and semi-automatic rifles at the vehicle, which finally came to a halt about 500 metres from the depot with all four wheels punctured.
I'd probably sprinkle them on top of a trifle if I ate trifles.
The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline.
But the story is enlivened by photographs, Evon Zerbetz's striking linocut illustrations, and excerpts from the Marzluffs' journals, which add a certain immediacy to recollections now more two decades old: "We hear the deck and even the trees popping, like shots from a rifle, especially when the temperature drops below 0° F," Colleen writes. Coming of Age as a Bird of Prey
During the Napoleonic wars, the militia was supplemented by various ‘fencibles’, and after 1859 by the Rifle Volunteers.
If the Cimmerian is probably the stronger, the rifleman has a rifle (duh!). Sharpe's Tower of the Elephant (part 2)
At every halt of the wagons a shoemaker would be seen searching for a lapstone; a gunsmith would be mending a rifle, and weavers would be at their wheels or looms. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West
He made over 40 parachute jumps while serving as a rifle platoon leader, battalion adjutant, and commander of a raider platoon.
Sometimes you discovered a fresh shallow grave topped with a wooden cross or a boltless rifle stuck muzzle-down into the mud with a helmet on top of it. ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
It did, for the gun he took was an almost silent air rifle.
After a long tough winter, many grizzlies, black bears, wolves and cougars are girding themselves for the onslaught of "sportsmen" wielding high-powered rifles in search of "trophies. Chris Genovali: The Cruelest Month for British Columbia's Coastal Carnivores
The Steps have built an aviary of sorts and have been trying to stock it with any wild birds they can wing with their air rifles.
At the Information Ministry, also on the river's west bank, civilians armed with rocket-propelled grenade rifles stood by and a half-dozen soldiers manned sandbagged positions.
He said he was also concerned about the number of imitation weapons and air rifles in the county.
One man, with a semi-automatic rifle strapped to his back and a pistol in his holster, mingled with supporters of Obama's healthcare reforms.
The young man levelled his rifle again and fired.
It seemed only moments before the natives withdrew to just outside rifle shot range.
The men carried plasma carbines, which were better suited than were rifles to the close combat inside the corridors of space stations and starships.
He steadied his rifle on the wall and fired.
The hunter's rifle cracked and the deer fell dead.
Adapters and wads are available for most handgun and rifle calibers, and 12-gauge shotguns.
This is a mere trifle compared to the average 500,000 price of buying a flat in our metropolis. The Sun
Important nations are feared, respected, and rarely trifled with.
Wildfire and Firecat barreled through the thick smoke, their laser rifles blazing an incandescent firestorm through the smoke.
They shot him at point blank range with an automatic rifle.
United's midfielder threatened to shoot with his left, but then turned inside Ben Watson's tackle and rifled the ball into the roof of the net with his right.
Today, all of the major American ammunition makers have a top-end product in both handgun, rifle and shotgun ammunition.
Jim in NC -- As long as a rifle is accurate and has a good trigger, Dave will like it no matter how much or little it costs. Do-It-Yourself Recoil Reducer
He pulled out his rifle and fired three shots .
Many shooters use nothing else, One young fellow of my acquaintance, an avid shooter and hunter, mentioned he had never owned a wood-stocked rifle.
The rifled portion of the tube imparts spin to the projectile increasing stability in flight.
On his forehead a narrow, inch-long indentation from a rifle-butt remains as a souvenir of his ordeal.
It is available in nine calibers - two rifle and seven pistol - and features Longbow non-toxic frangible bullets and non-toxic heavy metal-free primers.
As the column filed across the vast tableland, sharp reports of rifle fire could be heard from the rear as the trailing company shot horses and oxen too weak to continue.
They are triflers with God, with one another and with their own souls.
My fellow writers if my words have left you feeling a trifle depressed and desolate, cheer up.
I missed Matata's sixth sense and the Boer war rifle.
A typical task organization for route clearance would be two ATGMs with a section of infantry, including the rifle platoon sergeant and forward observer, and a sapper squad in the engineer squad vehicle under the MGS platoon leader.
We went up to the landing and there passing down by the end of the garden was a party of about 10 men in civvies, carrying rifles heading for the Pontoon Road.
There was an ornate rifle mounted on the wall behind him.
A machine gunner and rifleman cover the cave entrance.
At either end of the bridge a sentinel stood with rifle at ready.
There was a time when having a tang sight on your rifle was the sign of a serious marksman.
And there’s obviously an American demographic for whom the combination of ‘Israeli’, ‘female’ and ‘trained to shoot an assault rifle’ is the ultimate in wank-fodder. soullite Says: Matthew Yglesias » Leave it to the Professionals
Good companies prevent their servers from forwarding mail that do not originate from their clients, but more negligent companies do not pay attention to such trifles.
Try turning the key a trifle .
In the huge battles of 1914-15 Russian infantrymen had to attack unprotected by artillery barrages and often lacking even rifles.
As a photographer, he'd found both locations just a trifle disappointing.
One of them actually had an artificial leg, and carried not only a loaded rifle but a cane.
Now passing from these courtly trifles, let vs talke of our scholastical toyes, that is of the Grammaticall versifying of the Greeks and Latines and see whether it might be reduced into our English arte or no. The Arte of English Poesie
He had no money to spare on trifles.
My task is to winnow through what remains after the onslaught and pick up unconsidered trifles they might have missed. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
He drew his rifle from its sacking cover.
I never hear of an inexperienced buyer in search of a rifle without being reminded of the purchaser of a telescope, who, on asking the optician, among a multitude of other questions, whether he would be able to discern an object through it four miles off, received for reply, 'See an object _four_ miles off, Sir? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
Turf wars, the occasional hardhead who goes for the assault rifle when the raid team shows, bitterness over price hikes or debts owed. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
Towyn north beach good for dogfish but flounder and dabs reported from the southern section at Penllyn and the rifle range.
We crossed quickly, followed by the rifle and the howitzer and the rearguard.
A squirrel got into his birdfeeder and he tried to frighten it off with an air rifle, but he killed it instead and was sick for a week.
A wrong move is turning around with a rifle pointed at you.
In addition to seven cars rigged with explosives, the guardsmen found 30 rocket-propelled grenades, high-powered rifles, mortars and remote control detonators.
While I did not begrudge the President his due recognition, this was a trifle fulsome.
He gripped his rifle and tied it to his back, unhitching his long bowie knife.
We find this to be incentive enough to always zoom while firing your sniper rifle.
The sudden snort of a kudu could cause me to grip my rifle and prepare for the worst, until I remembered that it was not a large carnivore.
However, I can say after purposely firing multiple consecutive shots without swabbing the bore (under test conditions) that hot water slicked the rifle up to brand new in a few short minutes.
Jose Reyes makes a diagonal run into the box from the left wing, Thierry Henry pokes a brilliant pass into his path and the young Spaniard rifles the ball into the side-netting.
Most often the cowpuncher's rifles were carried in the chuck wagon.
Because no rifle - not even a match-tuned masterpiece of the gunsmith's art - can shoot off a rickety, wobbly bench.
In addition to the rockets, police collected more then 400 mortar rounds, more than 200 recoilless rifle rounds, 150 machine gun rounds, 75 rocket-propelled grenades and four anti-tank mines.
It contained a registration card for the Republican party and a membership card to the National Rifle Association.
As to rifles in Va, I heard some years back that the commonwealth was considering banning them as there were concerns about slobs road hunting and sniping turkeys out of open fields beside the road. Rifle hunting turkeys
An inspector rifled through discarded bin bags outside her home in Openshaw and is believed to have found a handwritten letter which had her name written on it.
Thumbs flick switch from safety to semi on the rifles and you raise your weapons, point and shoot three round bursts at where you think the enemy is, because you haven't seen them yet.
The hunter's rifle cracked and the deer fell dead.
They advanced to within rifle range.
Ruby had taken the relic piece -- more relative to the harquebus than to the current fashion in rifles -- and hunted wild turkey and deer through the winter, jerking the venison by the fire like an Indian. Cold Mountain
All were loaded with the bullet seated .010-inch off the rifling, in Winchester cases with CCI large rifle magnum primers.
Hans carried a light fowling-piece, while Hendrik's gun was a stout rifle of the kind known as a "yager" -- an excellent gun for large game. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
How can we trifle away our lives.
But, even full-length sizing of standard rifle cases doesn't take a lot of effort.
‘When I saw the Mexican army up on the hill there and there I was in my full rig - with my flintlock rifle - it got kind of spooky,’ he added.
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What impresses them is if I go out to my balcony in the middle of the night and fire off three rounds from my rifle.
Disappointment queerly stirring her, she opened her eyes a trifle and ventured a peep at him.
The hostage had a rifle levelled at his head.
Regardless, Taylor's & Co. is now offering a Model 92 as a perfect companion for .44 Special sixguns with the added bonus of being a takedown rifle.
The video looks to show that one individual in the aggroup may have pointed a rifle toward the armored helicopter -- which given in turn going aiming its shanks at the mankind on the ground as it circled -- though there's no evidence the Iraqis fired a weapon. WN.com - Articles related to Tobacco Funds Shrink as Obesity Fight Intensifies
A 35-year-old woman detailed how she was beaten with rifle butts and fists before five soldiers threw her to the ground, tore off her clothes and took turns raping her, even as she vomited, urinated and defecated. Congo colonel gets 20 years after rape trial
I've bought a couple of Ithaca M-37s but haven't figured out the rifle solution for the "leftward" son. Revenge of the Southpaws
Is that what you call overstepping the mark a trifle? Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
I was awakened before cockcrow by the sound of distant rifles.
Rifles are legal for wild turkey hunting in some areas.
Politicians on both sides , he says, have been " captured " by the vocal National Rifle Association ( NRA ).
The firing squad were already aiming their rifles and waiting for the order to shoot.
Before they could discharge their rifles four of them were already down.
What they forgot to take into account, however, is that you do not hear the primary charge of a rifle being fired if you are more than 100 metres from it, you only hear the "thwack" or "crack" of the bullet passing overhead, followed by a MUTED primary charge thump (weapon firing). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
In the 17th century, gunsmiths from Central Europe emigrated to the colony of Pennsylvania, and in their shops the jaeger began to evolve into a much smaller-calibered rifle. Rifle That Made America
Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel.
Fishing tackle and rifle scopes are expensive.
Even in short-barreled rifles, the SOST provides impressive ballistics - achieving 2925 fps in a 14″ barrel. Latest Articles
Other manufacturers may make rifles with fancier stocks, brighter bluing, better checkering and polishing.
For reduced distance rifle-firing on bases that have only pistol ranges, a scaled down target featuring 10 appropriately dimensioned miniature silhouettes is placed at 25 meters.
There was little frolic left in them when night came; they were short-spoken, prone to grow fierce over trifles. The Desert Valley
The first federal gun legislation, the National Firearms Act of 1934, introduced controls on automatic weapons, sawed-off rifles and shotguns, and silencers, weapons popular with gangsters.
I hate that they should be worried about trifles.
At 1.15am, as they slept, Hobbins allegedly crept into the guardroom and took the rifle.
I got hungry and walked in uphill to the road and as my head got up enough to see the downside of the ridge another hunter on the opposite side in his tree stand had his rifle pointing right at my chest. What is your closest call to a bad experience while hunting?
Just so you know, the term assault weapon or assault rifle is a legal term used to describe a variety of semi-automatic firearms that have certain features generally associated with military assault rifles. The Daily News - News
The caliber was 16-gauge and the barrel was rifled with lands and grooves that ran straight as an arrow from breech to muzzle.
As regards weapon effects, they are distinct and varied, with each individual pistol, shotgun and automatic rifle having its own recognizable report.
There was heavy fighting in Nanning, where our people were barricaded in an old district of the city, with no more than a hundred rifles between us.
The rifle shooter fired again and now his rifle was empty.
The riflery event basic category is the rifle (fire), the pistol (fire), runs the target, throws the target (fire) and the bidirectional flying saucer (fire).
He moved a hand guardedly down toward the bolt on his rifle.
He told me that he and his son had fallen on the rifle some years back, breaking it and he had glued it back together for the buy-back.
Also in 1876, the Marlin / Ballard rifles began to be chambered for the heavy, centerfire cartridges needed on the frontier.
Imagine firing a high-powered rifle in a mountainous area; people within five kilometers of the shot would hear it.

How To Use Rifle In A Sentence

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