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Examples of radar gun in a Sentence
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Heaving twice before taking the mound, the man who once hit 105 mph out of the bullpen didn’t register a single reading on the radar gun above 96 mph.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
Harrison was able to hit 97 mph on the radar gun — three ticks faster than his average velocity — before even ramping up to maximum effort.
—Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
Mizuhara usually recorded Ohtani’s throwing sessions on his phone or tracked his data with a pocket radar gun.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Occupying the bottom spot reserved for the starting pitcher, was another cause célèbre, Jordan Hicks, whose high heat lit up the Scottsdale Stadium radar gun for the first time, too.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
Police officials say e-bike laws are hard to enforce on the Strand, where motorcycles and radar guns aren’t practical.
—Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
False Alert Filtering Radar detectors do sometimes pick up radar signals from other devices and mistake them for police radar guns.
—Doug Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023
Read full article The radar gun on the Fenway jumbotron registered at 99 miles per hour.
—Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
Then, Ryan suddenly flashed 101 on the stadium radar gun.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1977, in the meaning defined above
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“Radar gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radar%20gun. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
radar gun
noun
: a handheld device that uses radar to measure the speed of a moving object
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