How to Use paintball in a Sentence

paintball

noun
  • Both groups were armed with bats, paintball guns and shields.
    — Oregonian/oregonlive Staff, oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2021
  • There’s wildlife on the grounds, paintball, a zip-line, slot machines and a spa.
    — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Parking lots looked as if they had been attacked with paintballs full of dust!
    — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Matty’s paintball gun discharged in the house and broke a pane of glass.
    — D. S. Waldman, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2024
  • At least one person was injured when they were hit in the face with a paintball.
    — Dakin Andone and Chandler Thornton, CNN, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The opera was certainly less painful than the paintball trip for Ohams.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The officer then rushed over and shot him twice at point-blank range with the paintball gun, the suit says.
    — Emilie Eaton, San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 2021
  • He was found to be in possession of a paintball gun, an axe and a stun gun, police said.
    — oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Paramedics on the scene spotted green paint all over him and told Morales he’d been shot with a paintball.
    — Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • He was suspended last year for three games for shooting students with a paintball gun.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 11 June 2022
  • Laser Quest Phoenix Think of laser tag as paintball without the paint.
    — Wendy Killeen, azcentral, 24 May 2018
  • Portions of a paintball playing field just downstream of the bridge begin to flood.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The driver's passenger side window was rolled down when the paintball gun was fired.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 26 June 2017
  • None of the victims were struck by the paintballs, police said, but three of their vehicles were hit.
    — Kathleen McWilliams, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The program has had lieutenants, armed with nonlethal paintball guns, shoot at birds in the morning.
    — Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 20 Dec. 2019
  • There are also batting cages, a space train, arcade, go-karts, mini karts and paintball.
    — Erin Gallagher, Daily Southtown, 15 June 2017
  • The buyer plans to host parties on site in the future as well as offer a paintball center.
    — Kathy Jumper, al, 9 Jan. 2022
  • He was seated in the bed of a truck with a paintball gun when arrested, according to court records.
    — oregonlive, 5 May 2021
  • Other items in the trunk included a tent, archery gear, a paintball gun, a bag of marbles, and two pairs of gloves.
    — Tracey Kaplan, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Navigate a four acre corn maze, meet fur babies at a petting zoo, and compete at paintball.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Members of the group then left the parking lot to assault other cars and shoot paintballs at passersby.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Navigate through a four acre corn maze, meet fur babies at a petting zoo, and compete at paintball.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Sep. 2025
  • But the damage, some in the paintball community say, might already have been done.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The officers, armed with paintball guns, ended up shooting both the suspect and the hostage.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Members of the group took his words to heart, training by playing paintball in the woods of Virginia.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Police said Greene had a paintball gun that was shaped like a pistol and resembled a real gun.
    — Seamus McAvoy, courant.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Play Laser Tag or Paintball Get geared up to play a fun game of laser tag or paintball!
    — Janece Maze, Country Living, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The Nashville Scene also mentions eels, tasers, paintball guns, and whips.
    — Megan Stein, Country Living, 23 Oct. 2019
  • After the crash, the Times reports the driver jumped out of his truck holding a pellet gun and paintball gun.
    — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
  • One presumably mentioned the episode that found Ari Gold using a paintball gun around the office.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2023

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