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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Police in Austin, Texas, released video of a masked man robbing a bank at gunpoint.
    Adam Sabes, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • At gunpoint, James forced his prisoner to walk into the woods.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • People in passing cars could see a young man with a beard and long hair and a coat that was far too big being held at gunpoint.
    Hugo Hamilton, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Police said the suspect, who was wearing a hoodie and face mask, robbed the business at gunpoint.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Three people exited the sedan and took the woman’s cell phone and bag by gunpoint, police said.
    Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Once inside, the officers ordered her and her brother at gunpoint to get on the floor.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The driver, who had been held up at gunpoint, had been behind the wheel during the police pursuit, the outlets reported.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Police say the suspect shot at least one person before holding the driver at gunpoint and forcing him to drive northbound.
    Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024

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