bandoleers

Extra bandoleers of cartridges hung over their shoulders, which he knew they would need.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

I could see two of the enemy carrying several extra M-16 rifles and a bunch of bandoleers of ammunition.

Michael Craig Campbell 2010

Extra bandoleers of cartridges hung over their shoulders, which he knew they would need.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

It doesn't take long for the action, adventure, and adrenaline to pull you into the distant valleys with "their spidery networks … of unseen trails" where you will begin to the feel "bandoleers of ammunition digging into" Mellas's neck, and the "mud sucking on his boots."

The Book on Vietnam 2010

Without her I wouldn't have the mental image of Dick Cheney decked out like Rambo with a belt fed machine gun in one hand, and bandoleers crossed over his ripped chest, standing in the city street in front of some WW2 tanks.

Tired of pink men. Ann Althouse 2009

Instead we wore the equivalent of NASCAR jumpsuits bedecked with varying vintage shout-outs, bandoleers of band buttons and ironic body accouterments.

The Insular Decade 2009

McVeigh's narrow chest was crisscrossed with bandoleers filled with ammo; he carried a rifle with a scope, a sawed-off shotgun and two pistols.

The Plot 2008

Pleasantly weary, he stretched out on a rope bed, eavesdropping on his father's guests and supplicants -- smoky, piratical gatherings in the hujera's great room, with hubble-bubble hookahs and high-caliber bandoleers, lulling him to sleep with the streamside murmur of their mutter and growl, and the whine and hum of their radio, beaming news from the great beyond.

Excerpt: The Warlord's Son by Dan Fesperman 2004

One skeleton lady is a revolutionary señorita, with crossed bandoleers, another a vamp with low-cut dress exposing a daring breastbone and ribs.

Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

One skeleton lady is a revolutionary señorita, with crossed bandoleers, another a vamp with low-cut dress exposing a daring breastbone and ribs.

Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006