How to Use gunpoint in a Sentence

gunpoint

noun

• The two were then forced at gunpoint into the car’s trunk.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
• One by one, the paintings were snatched from the walls at gunpoint.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• Marzolf stopped the teens and told them to lie face down on the ground at gunpoint.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 28 Apr. 2023
• The same men now held Michelle and Breea at gunpoint in the living room.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
• That’s the number of times they were held up at gunpoint.
  — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• Pye kicked in the door and held Yarbrough at gunpoint, the court decision says.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• The woman said the man ordered her, at gunpoint, to move over in the car, and told her not to look at him.
  — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• They were forced to remove their shoes at gunpoint and shot along the banks of the Danube River.
  — Miriam Porter, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Sadek said about a year and a half ago he was robbed at gunpoint by a team of three robbers.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• As Onoda held him at gunpoint, the tourist swore that the war was over.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
• Bragg said that, as a child, he was held at gunpoint by police.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Yaakov sits on the floor, at gunpoint, as an intruder speaks to him.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• Moïse is held at gunpoint as the room is ransacked in search of the document.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
• The suspect, a 17-year-old Warrensville Heights boy, was ordered, at gunpoint, out of the van.
  — cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
• The car had been reported stolen at gunpoint from the city of Cleveland.
  — cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
• One by one, the Ukrainians are led out into the daylight and forced at gunpoint to lie face down.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
• At one point, where we were held at gunpoint, saying our last prayers.
  — TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
• The victim tells police that two men broke into the home and woke her up at gunpoint.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
• Owners were being held at gunpoint and robbed of all their day’s cash.
  — Curtis Chin, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022
• The three assailants took some cash from the man and then forced him inside at gunpoint, said Sheriff’s Det.
  — Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
• Balodis testified his friend also was knocked to the ground and robbed at gunpoint.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2022
• They are being held at gunpoint by the same group that massacred their friends and loved ones.
  — Adam Sella, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• The woman said she was held hostage at gunpoint and was not allowed to leave since Friday, April 5.
  — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
• When McGee was around five or six, a group of men hijacked her father’s truck, and held him up at gunpoint.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 2 June 2022
• As Long later described to a reporter, the men forced him into the back seat of the Honda at gunpoint.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• Two characters are held at gunpoint, and a gun is fired once (not at a person).
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• He was captured at gunpoint on Sept. 13 in a rural part of Chester County.
  — Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2023
• A year ago, another dog was stolen at gunpoint not far from where the performer’s dogs were nabbed.
  — Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• Del Toro said the men allegedly held the victim at gunpoint as well as with a knife and threatened his life.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2022
• In one incident on Saturday, a convoy of 109 UN aid trucks was looted at gunpoint.
  — Barak Ravid, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024