How To Use Sawn-off In A Sentence

  • But in Coleman prison, he was surrounded by 1,000 hardened inmates, most of them convicted of drug trafficking or possession of illegal weapons, such as sawn-off shotguns, pistols equipped with silencers and machine-guns mounted on tripods. Conrad Black: the saga continues
  • Police are seeking a man to help with their inquiries about the sawn-off rifle and ammunition.
  • We used fourteen magazines for the automatics and twelve clips for the sawn-offs.
  • There were fifteen automatic weapons, twenty semi-automatics, thirty-six shotguns, two sawn-offs, one hundred magazines of one hundred bullets, five pistols with two hundred clips and forty grenades.
  • Under five sawn-off oil barrels fierce wood fires are burning: on top of them are the woks of giants, each as wide as I can stretch my arms.
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  • Police are seeking a man to help with their inquiries about the sawn-off rifle and ammunition.
  • There, they will spy boys in tight, pink jeans and girls with errant bum cheeks flopping loose from sawn-off denim shorts.
  • Inside the house, I expected a typical wealthy Essex businessman's abode: crossed sawn-offs over a granite mantel, widescreen TVs in every tennis court, more fake marble than you could shake a building society branch at.
  • Two masked men, one brandishing a sawn-off shotgun and the other a wrench, raided a village store.
  • Walker came face-to-face with the business end of a sawn-off shotgun.
  • Moat spent most of the confrontation with the police holding his sawn-off shotgun to his head and neck before pulling the trigger at 1. 15am. Raoul Moat family seeks second postmortem
  • The men were armed with sawn-off shotguns.
  • Under five sawn-off oil barrels fierce wood fires are burning: on top of them are the woks of giants, each as wide as I can stretch my arms.
  • A four-man gang, armed with a sawn-off shotgun and a revolver, overpowered security guards and forced their way into the plant.
  • There, they will spy boys in tight, pink jeans and girls with errant bum cheeks flopping loose from sawn-off denim shorts.
  • There was no evidence whatsoever that anything coming remotely similar to a .22 calibre sawn-off rifle was used in either one of the robberies.
  • Bird fired 54 rounds of ammunition during his rampage, 23 rounds from his .22 rifle and 31 from the sawn-off shotgun. Police had 'no grounds' to ban killer Derrick Bird from owning guns
  • Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol.
  • A four-man gang, armed with a sawn-off shotgun and a revolver, overpowered security guards and forced their way into the plant.
  • It was a sawn-off, double barreled shotgun with a pistol grip added.
  • It was a sawn-off, double barreled shotgun with a pistol grip added.
  • The raiders were armed with sawn-off shotguns.
  • Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol.
  • Masked raiders who beat a publican over the head with a sawn-off shotgun were today being hunted by police.
  • I walk through East London every morning to get to work, and sometimes you can see the terrors of war superimposed on the modern landscape -- the sawn-off stubs of the iron railings that were harvested "for the war effort" (and dumped in the Channel without being turned into munitions after all), the single handsome old building stuck like an old tooth in the gleaming modern denture-work of sterile, post-War neubauten. Boing Boing
  • There was no evidence whatsoever that anything coming remotely similar to a .22 calibre sawn-off rifle was used in either one of the robberies.
  • IT has been compared to an angry ant, a sawn-off shotgun and a wild boar, its twin headlights shining like angry piggy eyes.
  • The men burst in wearing balaclavas and brandishing sawn-off shotguns.
  • A good hour before the fun's due to start and already the place is filling up with punks, teds, skins, student kids, moshers, grizzled old men in sawn-off T-shirts and a horde of beered-up lads baying for blood.
  • As soon as the pair saw him, they pointed a sawn-off double barrelled shotgun and a handgun at him.
  • A man was stopped in the lane with a sawn-off shotgun in the boot and a woman was arrested trying to sell drugs outside the junior school.
  • Police have raided the home of an elderly couple following reports of a man brandishing a sawn-off shotgun.
  • He says that at the trial the police tried to fit him up by charging him as though it were a sawn-off shotgun which carried an automatic year's prison sentence. File reveals police view of drug squad raid on Keith Richards
  • Walker came face-to-face with the business end of a sawn-off shotgun.
  • Inside the house, I expected a typical wealthy Essex businessman's abode: crossed sawn-offs over a granite mantel, widescreen TVs in every tennis court, more fake marble than you could shake a building society branch at.
  • A man was stopped in the lane with a sawn-off shotgun in the boot and a woman was arrested trying to sell drugs outside the junior school.
  • And then there are the cigarettes you puff on after you've been sawn-off by the other team's umpire or run out by one of your idiotic team-mates*. Cricket & Tobacco: A Match Made on a True Pitch
  • Twenty guns, including handguns, rifles and sawn-off shotguns, were found at the house.
  • Two armed robbers brandishing sawn-off shotguns then burst through the debris to threaten staff inside.
  • The two fled, leaving the bag of cash and a sawn-off shotgun.
  • He then set up two devices, each comprising a sawn-off shotgun barrel and live ammunition.
  • Or are the refs armed with chainsaws and sawn-off shotguns? Sporting KC 0-2 Houston Dynamo - as it happened! | MLS Eastern Conference Championship
  • Times have changed a little from when you could sort this sort of stuff out with a sawn-off.
  • At that point I felt for sure I was looking down the barrel of a sawn-off shotgun.
  • The path led through a clearing where sawn-off logs had been left as a habitat for insects. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
  • A good hour before the fun's due to start and already the place is filling up with punks, teds, skins, student kids, moshers, grizzled old men in sawn-off T-shirts and a horde of beered-up lads baying for blood.
  • The door to the apartment was barricaded from inside and when Gardai moved in, two shots were fired with a sawn-off shotgun at close range, injuring two Gardai.
  • Then, waving his sawn-off shotgun, he chases the switchblade-wielding hitman down his hallway and out into the street.
  • Twenty guns, including handguns, rifles and sawn-off shotguns, were found at the house.
  • In contrast to the exhumation chronicles, which claimed wooden skullcaps covered the sawn-off crowns, their skulls are intact.
  • The Columbine students had an armoury including a sawn-off shotgun.
  • The robbers were armed with sawn-off shotguns .
  • When I plant them out later this week, each will be protected with its own sawn-off water - or pop-bottle. Jean's Knitting
  • The door to the apartment was barricaded from inside and when Gardai moved in, two shots were fired with a sawn-off shotgun at close range, injuring two Gardai.
  • The traditional .22 rifle has been replaced by a choice of Browning automatic handgun or sawn-off 12 bore shotgun.
  • Times have changed a little from when you could sort this sort of stuff out with a sawn-off.
  • Bird fired 54 rounds of ammunition during his rampage, 23 rounds from his .22 rifle and 31 from the sawn-off shotgun. Police had 'no grounds' to ban killer Derrick Bird from owning guns
  • There were fifteen automatic weapons, twenty semi-automatics, thirty-six shotguns, two sawn-offs, one hundred magazines of one hundred bullets, five pistols with two hundred clips and forty grenades.
  • In the loft they found a sawn-off, single-barrel 12 - gauge shotgun, a cartridge belt and a number of cartridges which were compatible with the gun.
  • At that point I felt for sure I was looking down the barrel of a sawn-off shotgun.

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