gas-masked
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At a timed signal the shelling ceased and the ghostly line of gas-masked Germans sprang forward, firing, lunging and tearing at the parapets on the outer edge of the cemetery."
- "A task force of 1,000 gas-masked, ready-to-shoot state troopers and sheriff’s deputies, backed in reserve by 70 truckloads of New York National Guardsmen, liberated 29 other hostages, 25 of whom were injured."
- "The Sanctuary of the Maibaum screenplay was located in Pittsburgh, where gas-masked children play hopscotch and runners survive under barely liveable conditions."
Etymology
From gas mask + -ed.