How to Use gunplay in a Sentence

gunplay

noun
  • All this said, gunplay is great.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There’s gunplay, a few close calls, some hot stunts, blah, blah, blah.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The melee fighting is just as good as the clever gunplay.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • The gunplay feels pretty good and there’s a wide array of guns to choose from.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • While the gunplay is fun, the level design of the campaign is just as good.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Even the gunplay, of which there is plenty, feels secondhand.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2021
  • Those who had become skilled with firearms and were willing to use them were hired for all sorts of things that might involve gunplay.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2021
  • Even if Arkane’s gunplay has never been its strongest suit, its worse here than it’s ever been.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Also injured in the gunplay was a motorist driving through the area at the time of the shooting.
    — Katelyn Umholtz | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The high school students had just been dismissed for the day when the gunplay began, officials said.
    — Jager Weatherby, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • There’s no action, really, in the sense of chases or gunplay or anything.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2016
  • How much Scrabble can one family play before the gunplay starts?
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Drake raps about guns with the glee of getting away with gunplay while his rhyme partner veers on a dime from trauma to gallows humor.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The action feels so different from the gunplay of the first game, and yet eerily familiar.
    — George Yang, Space.com, 22 June 2026
  • Chief will be up against some of his most harrowing enemies yet, but that should make for some exciting gunplay.
    — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 31 Oct. 2021
  • At times, the parties and sideshows — which aren’t exactly quiet — may include gunplay.
    — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The gunplay is still tight and responsive, and the level design remains easy enough to glean and strategize around.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The gunplay and melee combat are more impactful, and the encounters are set up with a bit more freedom for strategy.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Louis first thought the gunplay — a brief volley, a few seconds of silence, then a sustained barrage — was the work of rival drug dealers.
    — Bryan Denson, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The frontier legend could not have lasted without gunplay in the movies, which wasted no time weaponizing the old West and the new.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • That prompted all manner of talk about gunplay and dire consequences for the perpetrators if the chance ever arose.
    — Paul Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The Suicide Squad works best when Gunn the director can go to town with the dirty jokes and the over-the-top gunplay.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • That’s when the demo ushered in a wave of gory action involving visceral melee combat and gunplay.
    — Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • This makes firefights all about who fires first, more or less, and skill is mainly about getting the drop on people rather than being good at actual gunplay.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • And the brisk and busy ending is a fireworks show of redemption, revelation and old-fashioned gunplay.
    — Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018
  • There’s lavish violence of the video-game sort, meaning lots of explosions and crashes and gunplay, but little blood.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • But the last gen versions of the game, where the biggest problems have always been, are still quite bad, with performance even affecting gunplay.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • All three of the tracks have synth-heavy overtones with a tinge of ethereal horror, perfectly suited to the gruesome white-knuckle gunplay of the game.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Cyberpunk 2077 diverges from that series in a few major ways, and the first is with brutal high-speed gunplay.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 June 2018
  • Some action movies have elaborate effects, some have martial arts, some have gunplay, but The Matrix would have to have all of the above.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024

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