How to Use bullet in a Sentence

bullet

noun

• The quarterback threw a bullet to the receiver.
• Bullets were used to separate each item.
• He was killed by an assassin's bullet.
• No one was injured in the shooting, though a bystander was struck by a stray bullet.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• Axios’s e-mail newsletters would be all about bullet points, six-word headlines, and stories that fit on a phone screen.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• The staff member was struck by at least one bullet and was taken to a hospital with an injury that was not life-threatening.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• One was struck in the shoulder by a bullet and another was hit by shrapnel and injured, according to police.
  — Jeremy Yurow, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2022
• Also, there was testimony that Wilcox had loaded only one bullet into the gun.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2022
• His father was an alcoholic and had temper issues that led him to fire 200 bullet rounds into their home one night, as Knight and his brothers hid in the house.
  — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
• First responders found Mario Fowler, 46, with bullet wounds to both legs inside his apartment building, located down the block from where the shots rang out.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2025
• According to an autopsy carried out by the Palestinian Authority, she was killed by a single bullet to the back of the head.
  — Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN, 5 Sep. 2022
• One of the three remaining defendants in the death of a sleeping 9-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet in her New Jersey home four years ago has entered a plea in the case.
  — Fox News, 31 Aug. 2022
• Ditto's Arkansas roots included her father boiling squirrels' heads and sucking the brains through the nose and her grandmother killing three squirrels with one bullet.
  — Marcus K. Dowling, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
• Among the victims was a 40-year-old mother, whose identity has not been released, who sustained a bullet wound to her stomach and her 12-year-old daughter who was shot in the leg.
  — Danielle Jennings, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
• More recently, Eren has ventured into forensics, publishing his first paper on bullet ricochet marks earlier this year.
  — Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2025
• Nearly half of that was slated for bullet-resistant shields for school police and $17.1 million was for districts to purchase panic-alert technology.
  — Andrew Demillo, Chron, 6 Sep. 2022
• The impact of the bullet caused Burton to fall to the floor.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• Deputies found a bullet hole near the trunk of his car.
  — David Harris, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
• One child in the school was shot when a bullet pierced the wall of the classroom.
  — Helen Kwong, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2022
• So what’s the moral of the story? MF: Bite the bullet, just do it.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2023
• The bullet had sliced through the webbing next to his thumb.
  — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
• Simmons said the bullet fired at Clark may have struck the hostage.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 8 May 2023
• The young Latino man was killed by a single bullet to the back of the head.
  — Laurence Du Sault, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2022
• He had been hit by four bullets, two of them to his chest.
  — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
• Draw it on straight from the bullet, down the nose, across cheekbones, and along the jawline.
  — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
• The bullet sliced through his car, which was not armored.
  — Arturo Torres, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Not a single ounce of coal was left, so, dodged a bullet there.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
• Trump was hit in the ear before ducking from the bullets.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 16 July 2024
• Viano dodged the bullets and returned fire, killing the suspect.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2023
• The department confirmed that one of the the neighbors was hit by a piece of a bullet.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025