How to Use bullet in a Sentence

bullet

noun
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  • The quarterback threw a bullet to the receiver.
  • Bullets were used to separate each item.
  • He was killed by an assassin's bullet.
  • Jenkins Smith dropped to the tile floor, struck by a bullet in the chest.
    — Timothy Bella, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2022
  • But one race series has bitten the bullet and is switching over right now.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The 12-year-old girl’s back apparently was grazed by a bullet.
    — oregonlive, 18 Aug. 2022
  • In video of the scene, a car outside the hospital could be seen riddled with what appeared to be bullet holes and smashed window glass.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The actor also added a photo of his X-Ray with an image of the bullet in his forearm.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Garfield died roughly two months after an assassin's bullet couldn't be removed from his body and infected him.
    — Ed O'Keefe, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Just a mile from Gaza, Kfar Aza's houses were burned by explosives, riddled with bullet holes and reduced to rubble by tank shells.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The police shooting happened around the corner from where a 57-year-old woman was shot by a stray bullet earlier Friday, cops said.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
  • One officer was struck by a bullet in the shoulder and returned fire in the direction of Williams after getting out of his vehicle, police said.
    — Vic Verbalaitis, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The hotel's now-serene meditation space supposedly served as a bullet-resistant escape tunnel and hiding place for the famous drug lord.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Israel said its own investigation found the source of the bullet inconclusive, but that its soldiers did not deliberately shoot.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
  • One man allegedly unloaded his pistol into Mary, only to find that the bullets were incapable of penetrating her thick hide.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Most murders were by gunfire, and the number of people who were hit by bullets — and survived — rose 12% over the previous year, according to police data.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The impact of the bullet caused Burton to fall to the floor.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The bullet had sliced through the webbing next to his thumb.
    — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Simmons said the bullet fired at Clark may have struck the hostage.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 8 May 2023
  • The young Latino man was killed by a single bullet to the back of the head.
    — Laurence Du Sault, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2022
  • 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

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