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.
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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 -
Simmons said the bullet fired at Clark may have struck the hostage.
— Louis Casiano, Fox News, 8 May 2023 -
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 -
Love is blue, and in this movie so are blood, guts, bullets, and octane.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 May 2024 -
The defense said that because an AK-47 was used, the bullet could be as far as a mile away.
— Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2024 -
She had been hit in the abdomen by a single bullet that seemed to come out of nowhere.
— Sheila Cosgrove Baylis, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023 -
The first one, where the bullet grazed his ear in Butler, Pa., seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime fluke.
— Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2024 -
McIver had fired the gun, still in the plastic bag, and a bullet went through Diane's seat and struck her in the back.
— Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2024 -
The stray bullet came from a shooting just west of the park, police said on Facebook.
— Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 1 May 2023 -
Other things win wars today, and some of the best weapons don’t fire bullets.
— John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024 -
If people who have lived here their whole lives can’t avoid the bullets, what chance does a tourist have?
— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023 -
After firing one bullet, the gunman fled the scene, the army said.
— Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023 -
Video footage obtained by the Union-Tribune caught the moment the bullet hit the ground and the scramble that followed.
— Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2023 -
Hogan’s 13-year-old son was hit by a bullet but survived.
— Michael Steinberger, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023 -
The Texarkana Gazette reported that the unnamed victim was shot in the chest from a bullet fired from a car.
— Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023 -
One of Rasmussen’s favorites is a copy that was pierced by a bullet.
— Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023 -
Salazar noted that the bullet shell casings matched the shell casings of the bullets found at the crime scene.
— Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024 -
The footage shows the car’s front windshield cracked by at least three bullets and its rear windshield shattered.
— Carlos Valdez and Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024 -
The documents note that the Democratic Party office was struck by three .22 bullets during the Oct. 6 incident.
— Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
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