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How to use the word bullet in a Sentence?

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Cars pull up to our hospital covered in bullet holes, these women are anxious, stressed and many are in advanced labor.

Mohamed Fath Alrahman

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

Wars are the outcomes of battles and wars are the function of many, many variables, and in this case, you would have to make sure that your tanks are used in combined arms with mechanized infantry, artillery, all of that is synchronized with dismounted forces, etc. So there is no silver bullet in this case, but I do think the M1 tank when it’s delivered and it reaches its operational capability that it will be very effective on the battlefield.

Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the kids that I had in the unit, he was shot in the shoulder. The student that I was helping up from the side of the unit, he had bullet fragments on his thigh, and then we had another student with blown off fingers. And she was just in and out. We were trying to get her oxygen and trying to keep her alive. And I realized those were my son’s classmates and my son was not coming out.

Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News Children

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If a bullet cost $ 5,000, there ’d be no more innocent bystanders.

Chris Rock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun – or anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds.

Luke Nikas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They had a lot of the information or the logistics of what was -- like bullet casings and stuff like that, but when it comes to who was involved with the actual shooting, who was around -- and the people information ? I actually provided that to the police.

Dorothy Royston

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What does a bully, a bullet, and a tornado have in common? Their all destructive, they can all kill you.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
1 year ago

It’s clear that shrapnel wounds predominate but there are also bullet wounds.

Anna Sorokina

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

Laws of nature do not make exceptions for nice people. A bullet has no conscience; neither does a malignant tumor or an automobile gone out of control. That is why good people get sick and get hurt as much as anyone.

Harold S. Kushner

added by Normando
1 year ago

I have a lot of folks who start out hostile and then when they have an opportunity to hear a little bit more, they get it, and they say,' thank you.' However, that's harder to convey in a three quick bullet points, it's harder to convey in 87 words in a TV spot.

Hendrik Meijer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Where I grew up, every guy was trying to prove himself. You either had to have a tattoo or a bullet hole, i had both.

Richard Sirico

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We were inches away from planning a funeral for at least one brave, Philadelphia Highway Patrol officer as a bullet lodged in his cap, there are too many guns on our streets and far too many individuals acting recklessly with these deadly weapons.

John McNesby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We will not hand over the bullet that killed Abu Akleh to the occupation, and we have agreed that the Americans will conduct a forensic examination of the bullet.

Attorney General Akram Al Khatib

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is exceedingly rare for someone who is tagged as the respondent who has been put in the crosshairs with the false allegation of domestic violence — the silver bullet — to come out and get any kind of semblance of a victory, let alone have a voice, so, the fact that he was able to speak for the first time, and I think we saw from the trial as well, his humanity and the spirit and gentle nature of the man. He was consistent and only took responsibility for his faults and the mistakes that he made. He's never said he's perfect.

Greg Ellis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I called Megan Fox. I was like, ‘ You are n’t here for me, ’ i ’m in my room, and I ’m like freaking out on Taylor Hill/FilmMagic and, dude, I put the shotgun in my mouth, and I ’m yelling on the phone and like the barrel’s in my mouth. I go to cock the shotgun and the bullet as it comes back up, the shell just gets jammed. Megan’s like dead silent.

Machine Gun Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was kind of like, this can't be serious, because everything they're saying is so ridiculous, now, in retrospect, we really did dodge a bullet in terms of our democracy, because these folks were not playing.

Jen Jordan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Due to the firing from the temple roof and by the police, there was a chaotic situation and one bullet hit my son in his head.

Parvez Alam

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there are some misconceptions with... rifles. A lot of people say,' Oh, they're big bullets.' Actually, they're small bullets -- interestingly, they're even smaller than many handguns. So the actual bullet that's discharged from An AR-15, for example, is a half the size of the bullet from a 9 millimeter. The difference is the... velocity.

Acute Care Surgery.Matthew McConaughey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My sister-in-law said is that [Miah] saw her friend full of blood, and she got blood and put it on herself, my brother said she had bullet fragments in her back.

Blanca Rivera

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Israel asked for the bullet even before we began the investigation. This proves they were trying to fool us and the whole world, we will never give them the bullet.

Palestinian Attorney General Akram Al-Khatib

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no silver bullet.

Axel Lehmann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am absolutely sure that Ukrainian Army will defend our city up to the last bullet, so I don't know how many days is it possible to survive because people are in very bad condition and awful condition, and… I'm absolutely sure it's war crimes and genocide.

Mariupol Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I mean, look, they have enough money where they could have gotten on a private plane and got the f--- out of there, and [when] I hear them talk, they're not frightened, they're angry and they're gonna, they'll take a bullet. It's written all over their faces.

Mickey Rourke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To the soldiers who are listening to this, remember that 11 million Russians have family connections to Ukraine – so every bullet you shoot, you shoot a brother or a sister, to those in power in the Kremlin, let me just ask you: Why would you sacrifice these young men for your own ambition? … To [Russian] President Putin, I say: You started this war. You are leading this war. You can stop this war.

Michael Ochs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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