How to Use pellet gun in a Sentence

pellet gun

noun
  • Poddar shot her with a pellet gun.
    — M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 25 June 2026
  • That’s when deputies learned the weapon was an airsoft pellet gun.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • His hands are above his head, with one of them still clutching the pellet gun.
    — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • At least one had a pepper pellet gun trained on the crowd below.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 2 June 2020
  • The man said the weapon was a pellet gun and turned it over to officers.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The aircraft footage shows the pellet gun and two knives lying near him.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Police found two firearms in the classroom and say both were pellet guns.
    — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Lee then opened fire on police with the pellet gun and was cut down by return fire.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The complainant said the gun might have been a BB or pellet gun.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017
  • In his hand was a pellet gun, which troopers believed to be a real gun.
    — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Rice at the time had spent the day outside the center playing with a pellet gun.
    — Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Police said some of the injuries appeared to have been caused by a pellet gun.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper and Janie Har, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • Police say Healy told them the guns in the pictures were pellet guns.
    — Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Hall held a pellet gun pointed up and away from the police, and he was shot with his hands in the air.
    — Kathryne Rubright, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Crawford had picked up the pellet gun and aimlessly walked around the store.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Crawford picked up the pellet gun and aimlessly walked around the store.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Police later searched the student's home and found more pellet guns.
    — CBS News, 3 Dec. 2019
  • They were told the pistol that was fired likely was an Airsoft-type pellet gun.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Rimer said other causes of death could be that the squirrels were shot by a pellet gun or were poisoned.
    — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Police found a pellet gun or BB gun at the scene of at least two of his arrests.
    — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • As a fourth-grader, Nikolas Cruz would try to bloody them with his pellet gun.
    — Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The 12-year-old had spent the day outside the center playing with a pellet gun.
    — Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Deputies searched the home and found a mask and an Airsoft pellet gun that looks like an assault rifle.
    — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Phil taught Colt to ice fish, showed him the art of dirt bike maintenance, even showed him how to shoot a pellet gun.
    — [email protected], Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2014
  • Drugs and weapons other than firearms, such as knives and pellet guns, account for the bulk of offenses across the state.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The teen’s aunt and uncle ordered that the teen break the pellet guns, take them out of their home, and throw them away, police said.
    — Jacob Carozza, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Two weeks after that, police confirmed that her house was shot and vandalized with a pellet gun.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The hatchet was found in the creek and a pellet gun was found in the car Jacobs arrived at, police said.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Tamir, 12, was playing with a pellet gun in a park in Cleveland, Ohio.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 June 2020
  • Pigeons and a pellet gun Pigeons love to hang out on the roof of the gymnasium.
    — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2018

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