How to Use pistol in a Sentence

pistol

noun
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  • When Miller stopped the car, Rice put the pistol to the back of Miller's head and pulled the trigger.
    — Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The deputies found a Ruger .45 pistol in the area that was covered in blood.
    — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The point of a pistol is to shoot someone who is unarmed.
    — Jesse Ball, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • When he couldn’t, he was pistol whipped and brought back to the car, the documents say.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
  • One of the assailants retrieved a pistol and chased after the 16-year-old.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The woman told police that White, her ex-boyfriend, had struck her in the face with a pistol and fled.
    — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The officer drew his pistol and pinned Grisham to the hood.
    — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The Falcons had no rushes in the shotgun and an 81% run play rate out of pistol.
    — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • That prompted McAtee to pull a pistol from his hip and fire a shot.
    — Dylan Lovan, ajc, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The pistol was found underwater on one side of a small bridge that spans the canal.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
  • The Jacksonville plant also makes pistol night sights and sits on more than 60 acres.
    — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Dearman then managed to pry a .45 pistol from one of the victims and shot him.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Races started with a pistol shot, and judges started a hand timer to be stopped when the winner crossed the line.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
  • Witnesses said the 17-year-old had pointed the black pistol at the victim and his friends.
    — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Reed fired his pistol once, shooting the cousin in her torso, the warrant said.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The man then got a pistol out of a pickup truck and began shooting at the other two men.
    — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Lewis later said the pistol had simply slipped from the dashboard to the floorboard.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The driver was found with a pistol in his front right pocket and was disarmed.
    — Jason Wolf, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024
  • When the wife fires a warning shot with her pistol, the moose finally runs away.
    — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Pow pow pow goes a pistol, and a Native warrior falls down.
    — The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • The victim also told police that one of the suspects was armed with a pistol.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • So, just because your career didn’t take off at the starter pistol doesn’t mean the race is already over.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The juvenile, who was asked to meet the three acquaintances, was armed with a pistol.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Chow, armed with a pistol, and his son chased Carmack-Belton and the boy fell down, then got back up.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
  • The junior quarterback made the correct reads out of the pistol offense.
    — Chris Vogt, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Robin says Lindsay, 36, threatened her life and owns a pistol.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The girl’s adult sibling was found slumped over in a car with a pistol in his hand not long after, police say.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The gun was later determined to be a Glock replica BB-gun pistol, the video says.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2024
  • And the baddest of them all, Alucard (*cough* read that name back, right to left), wears a red trench coat, a pair of laughably huge pistols, and sunglasses at night to prove it.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The pistol is one of several weapons found in Allen’s home in 2022, prosecutors said.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024

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