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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Simmons said the bullet fired at Clark may have struck the hostage.
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Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
8 May 2023
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Draw it on straight from the bullet, down the nose, across cheekbones, and along the jawline.
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Liana Schaffner,
Allure,
21 Sep. 2023
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The bullet sliced through his car, which was not armored.
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Arturo Torres,
Washington Post,
18 Aug. 2023
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Not a single ounce of coal was left, so, dodged a bullet there.
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Julia Moore,
Peoplemag,
29 Dec. 2023
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The department confirmed that one of the the neighbors was hit by a piece of a bullet.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2023
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The defense said that because an AK-47 was used, the bullet could be as far as a mile away.
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Sarah Lapidus,
The Arizona Republic,
23 Mar. 2024
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She had been hit in the abdomen by a single bullet that seemed to come out of nowhere.
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Sheila Cosgrove Baylis,
Peoplemag,
4 May 2023
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McIver had fired the gun, still in the plastic bag, and a bullet went through Diane's seat and struck her in the back.
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Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
6 Feb. 2024
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The stray bullet came from a shooting just west of the park, police said on Facebook.
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Sarah Bahari,
Dallas News,
1 May 2023
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Other things win wars today, and some of the best weapons don’t fire bullets.
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John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2024
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If people who have lived here their whole lives can’t avoid the bullets, what chance does a tourist have?
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Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2023
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Video footage obtained by the Union-Tribune caught the moment the bullet hit the ground and the scramble that followed.
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Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 May 2023
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Hogan’s 13-year-old son was hit by a bullet but survived.
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Michael Steinberger,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2023
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The Texarkana Gazette reported that the unnamed victim was shot in the chest from a bullet fired from a car.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan,
Peoplemag,
1 May 2023
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After the last bullet was fired, the man, who had pointed a gun at strangers earlier in the da ...
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David Aaro,
ajc,
11 July 2023
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What appears to be a bullet casing can be seen flying out of the frame of the body camera footage.
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Kiara Alfonseca,
ABC News,
18 Oct. 2023
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Police said bullets from outside the home struck the victim.
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Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
12 Apr. 2024
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This time, a bullet struck her mother in the thigh, tearing through a large blood vessel.
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Kathleen McGrory,
ProPublica,
6 Jan. 2024
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One of the bullets pierced the backseat and struck Pacheco, an Oceanside resident.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Dec. 2023
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The second time, it was loaded with both dummy rounds and a live bullet.
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Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2024
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Twenty-two bullets pierced his body — his back, his side, his neck.
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Jasmine Hilton,
Washington Post,
25 Nov. 2023
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If this is a little too slow for your taste, rig a seedless worm like the Zoom Speed Worm with a 1/16th-ounce bullet weight at the nose.
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Shaye Baker,
Field & Stream,
13 Mar. 2024
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Barry and Hank each get a bullet, and Fuches and Sally do not.
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Thomas Floyd,
Washington Post,
29 May 2023
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Broken glass and bullet casings were scattered on the floor.
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Josh Yager,
CBS News,
14 Jan. 2024
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Lee was killed by a makeshift bullet that remained in a gun from a previous scene.
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Morgan Lee,
Twin Cities,
13 Feb. 2024
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Latasha Smith, the woman who filed the lawsuit Tuesday, was struck in the arm by a bullet that crashed through her apartment walls on Dec. 11.
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NBC news,
26 Apr. 2023
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An X-ray at Al-Ahli found that Edward had bullet fragments in his leg.
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Claire Porter Robbins,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2024
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