Use gunners in a sentence
Sentences ending with gunners
- As a matter of fact, it has been a target for German gunners. [9]
Short sentences using gunners
- The gunners must provide matches. [10]
More example sentences with the word gunners in them
- But our men waited until the gunners lit their matches in the cannon-ports,--it was no trick for a backwoodsman. [9]
- If he refused to fire, he would be strung up to the yardarm; if he fired and missed, perhaps other gunners would fire, and once started they might raze the fishing-post. [11]
- Phips's ships came to and stood alongside, and the gunners got to work. [11]
- She would have lost many more were it not that her onset demoralized the French gunners, while the cheers of the British sailors aboard the Beatitude gave confidence to their mutineer comrades. [11]
- On the fighting line, when there was a lull, our backwoodsmen stood up behind their trees and cursed the enemy roundly, and often by these taunts persuaded the furious gunners to open their ports and fire their cannon. [9]
- He would set his gunners to work. [11]
- In vain Phips's gunners tried to dislodge them and their guns. [11]
- He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle of the Frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or saved. [2]
- When Dyck came down, he had the gunners called to him, admonishing them that drill must go on steadily, and promising them good work to do. [11]
- Thither the London Companies had come in their varied dazzling accoutrements--hundreds armed in fine corselets bearing the long Moorish pike; tall halberdiers in the unique armour called Almainrivets, and gunners or muleteers equipped in shirts of mail with morions or steel caps. [11]
- The guns were charged with dirt, to fire a salute, but they were so crooked and so badly made that they all burst when they went off, and killed some of the gunners and crippled the others. [5]
- At first a battery of the Boers, fighting a rear-guard action, had also fired on it, but the gunners saw quickly that a single British gun was not likely to take up an advance position and attack alone, and their fire died away. [11]
- They sent ball after ball into her hull and through her rigging; they tore away her mainmast, shattered her mizzenmast, and handled her as viciously as only expert gunners could. [11]
- As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its former position. [2]
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