5 sentences with “rifle”

Ahead are the first Serb positions. From some rooftop or window, a man watches them with the telescopic sight of his high-powered rifle.

Hoping to overawe the people of the land, Lewis would unleash a blast from his air rifle, a relatively new piece of technology the Indians had never seen.

A European soldier armed with a modern rifle could shoot accurately up to almost half a mile away in any weather, while the inhabitants of Africa and Asia were armed with older firearms or handguns.

The journalist points through a hole to the houses on the other side of the street and says: "There are the Serbs: 50 metres away from us. The barrel of a rifle could be made out with the naked eye.

And from this addiction to electronic thinking not even the most backward and forgotten humans escape. The rifle that an Eskimo in the far north of Canada buys, a simple weapon that will allow him to do such basic things as hunt, eat and survive another winter, has been designed, manufactured and marketed with the help of computers. Without their intervention, the weapon would be far more expensive.