8 sentences with 'guns'
Example sentences and phrases with the word guns and other words derived from it.
• « Shah Abbas switched from relying on tribal warriors in warfare to using slave soldiers armed with guns, a practice the Ottomans had already used to great effect in their conquests in the west. »
• « English ships were smaller and more manoeuvrable, their guns were faster and easier to reload, and English captains knew how to sail in the fickle Channel winds more easily than their Spanish counterparts, all of which spelled disaster for the Spanish fleet. »
• « The iconic battles at the turn of the century between rifle-wielding European soldiers and the peoples they conquered in Africa and parts of Asia were not just about the guns; they were about the factories that made them, the calories that fed the soldiers, the steamships that transported them there, the telegraph lines that transmitted orders thousands of miles away, the medicines that kept them healthy, and so on... all of which represented a sea change, all of which represented an epochal change with respect to the economic and technological reality of the peoples who were trying to resist European imperialism. »
• « To protect themselves from the clouds of bullets launched by machine guns, desperate soldiers dived into the craters created by artillery shells. In the process, trench warfare was invented. »
• « The weapons that had been developed in the decades before the war, from huge new battleships known as Dreadnoughts (single-calibre battleships) to high-explosive artillery shells and machine guns, had all been considered fortresses for the nations of Europe. »
• « In a poorly planned assault on the Gallipoli peninsula near Constantinople, hundreds of thousands of British imperial troops (including tens of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders recruited to fight for "their" empire from half a world away) were shot down by Turkish machine guns. »
• « By then, more police cars had arrived in the car park and all the officers were pointing their guns at the Toyota. »
• « Sometimes battles are fought with fists and guns, but the most effective is often a simple act of love and courage. »