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
• Then, back in the room, she was threatened at gunpoint.
  — Lauren Izso, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
• 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
• King was ordered at gunpoint, cuffed and put in the back of a police car.
  — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2022
• 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
• That changed in 2016, when Kim was robbed at gunpoint in a Paris hotel room.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
• Rice holds the 16-year-old King at gunpoint while yelling commands.
  — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 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
• The hockey mask wearing man had ordered him to the ground at gunpoint.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2022
• That happened when Dorit had just been robbed at gunpoint!
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Juan Suarez, ordered Robinson out of the car at gunpoint.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2025
• The man then picked up his 2-year-old son and held him at gunpoint, officials said.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Iryna’s father, Volodymyr Abramov, who lived in a house next door, said that he and Oleh were held in the yard at gunpoint.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2022
• Police said the victim was held at gunpoint while his home was searched.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2022
• Owners were being held at gunpoint and robbed of all their day’s cash.
  — Curtis Chin, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022
• Cops are looking for a group of muggers who held a teen at gunpoint and robbed him of his cellphone on a Bronx train, cops said Saturday.
  — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2025