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Meaning rifle meaning

What does rifle mean?

rifle

— noun a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired — verb (= loot) steal goods; take as spoils During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners — verb (= go) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way Who rifled through my desk drawers?

Synonyms rifle synonyms

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rifle English » English

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Topics rifle topics

What do people use rifle to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Social behavior Conflict War

Plunder

Conjugation rifle conjugation

How do you conjugate rifle?

rifle · verb

Examples rifle examples

How do I use rifle in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The soldier refused to fire his rifle at the enemy.
He picked up the rifle and aimed it at the target.
He carried a rifle on his shoulder.
She shot him with a rifle.
Tom owns a hunting rifle.
I have never aimed at a bear with my rifle.
He knows how to clean his rifle.
Get my rifle.
He's cleaning his rifle.
Tom put the rifle away.
One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
He always walks with a rifle.
He equipped himself with a rifle.
Tom asked Mary if she knew where he could buy an assault rifle.
Tom knows how to handle a rifle.
Have you ever shot a rifle?
Kill that bear with a rifle.
When I said that I had killed a panther with nothing but a knife, this means that I did not have any dogs with me and that I did not use a rifle.

Movie subtitles

My son is not to blame, that rifle was left here by the retreating Germans.
With a rifle on their shoulders, 15 bullets in their pockets and - unremitting will in their hearts, our first volunteers went into battle.
Got a rifle and a fowling piece.
Get me my rifle, I'll brand him with the Imperial emblem!
And all this squealing and hooting, had I my rifle, I'd start shooting.
Pass me a rifle!
That means he's gone for his high-powered rifle.
His rifle?
But he'll have his rifle.
You have made my rifle useless in the fog.
I was right there with a rifle.
Whose rifle's this?
The deputies that stuck with me most of them disappeared and I were holding off the mob as best we could with tear gas and rifle butts when somebody slugged me from behind, and I.
It was a long rifle.
Here is your title of ownership, a plow and a horse to go with it, and a rifle to defend yourself against those bastards.
He taught you to walk, to ride a horse, and to use a sword and rifle.
ProIetarian, learn to use the rifle!
A rifle and a fowling piece.
Therefore, this said court, by virtue of articles 2o5, 6 and 7 of the military code condemns this woman to be shot to death by rifle fire.
Riano, let me have that rifle.
The darned fool. I was right there with a rifle.
Whose rifle's this? It's mine.
And will I check rifle beeches and barrels. Have you ever heard the like?
Checking the rifle breeches?
Give me a rifle.
Where you going with that rifle?
But she take my rifle and my horse.
Well, I oughta have a rifle and some-- -l've got one!
When the pickaninny was born, the rifle squad examined him to see if it was Earl Williams.
The rifle squad is just going out.
If I don't report better, I may be trading these goggles for a service rifle.
Post guards and don't let anybody come within rifle shot.

News and current affairs

Murdering more than 60 innocent young people at a summer camp with an assault rifle, after bombing a chunk of central Oslo, is, to put it mildly, morally eccentric - something most sane people would never dream of doing.
Rather than a debate on the issues, there's been a lot of name-calling about my donations by such groups as the Republican National Committee and the National Rifle Association.
Few legislators - Democrats and Republicans alike - care to take on the National Rifle Association.
An A-bomb is millions of times more immoral than a spear or sword, hundreds of thousands of times more immoral than a rifle, thousands of times more immoral than a machine gun, and hundreds of times more immoral than salvo systems or cluster bombs.
Huang Zhiji was a boy, little taller than his rifle, when he joined the Red Army.

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