The act of shooting a gun

Usage examples of gunshot.

She felt more than one pang of conscience as she agreed that Wickham was, indeed, abovestairs at that very moment, and, was moreover, slightly wounded from an accidentally self-inflicted gunshot.

She was confused, not only about Chuckles the bonesetter who specialized in gunshot wounds, but the whole of the river parishes.

There was no gunshot, but as I drew up before the stone house the door was flung open and Mother Newberry appeared, a Hall breechblock loader in one hand.

Most battles were am- bushes, a sniper from the shadows, bushwackers in the dark, the gunshot through the back, and not the standup quick-draw affairs beloved of such novelists as Ned Bunt- line.

The sound of the explosion was such that the mob inside the pub soon became the mob outside, looking for the gunshot victim but finding instead the drunken chauffeur wandering about the chopfallen car, kicking the good tires as if that might reinvigorate the flat without having to pump.

Quoted by Ashhurst, Hunter recorded a case of gunshot wound, in which, after penetrating the stomach, bowels, and diaphragm the ball lodged in the thoracic cavity, causing no difficulty in breathing until shortly before death, and even then the dyspnea was mechanical--from gaseous distention of the intestines.

Behind us, I heard crashing noises and gunshots as the Gaters began neutralizing the security system and breaking inside.

Dale sent Michiko Katayama to court the next day, to beg off, saying that Hask had suffered a relapse from his gunshot injury.

Four or five gunshots crashed out, and at least two of the bullets came through the door after Lochaber and the girl.

Simultaneously a glass dagger stabbed into the front nearside tyre, which blew with the sound of a gunshot.

A large number of cases of frontal lesions-largely suffered in warfare and as gunshot wounds-have been investigated by the American neurophysiologist Hans-Lukas Teuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There was a burst of shouting from the direction of the camp, accompanied by one more gunshot, but he could make out only the voices of Foreman Jing and Woosoh-Loh in their native tongue, until he heard Axe shout a death threat in poor but understandable Wild-dog, and a weaker echo from the cardinal that the threat was real and enforceable.

It is secure and the walls are soundproof to anything short of a gunshot.

Another gunshot blast ripped through the steel sheeting on the main window of the dancefloor, but failed to find a target, smashing into the plaster ceiling rose in the centre of the room.

Though the range was no more than five feet, there was no clank of impact punctuating the flurry of gunshots, only the whine of deflected slugs as they ricocheted on the rocks around him.