Example sentences for: bullets

How can you use “bullets” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Johnnie Cochran said he will assemble a dream team of lawyers to hold the New York police "accountable" for the death of an African street peddler . The victim, Amadou Diallo, died after plainclothes policemen fired 41 bullets at him in the vestibule of his apartment building, hitting him 19 times.

  • This same egalitarianism fuels the feeling that the Secret Service shouldn't serve, in the mot du jour , as the president's "Praetorian Guard"--that it shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances.

  • He had five measly points while his sidekick, Scottie Pippen, had scorched the Bullets for 17.

  • (War, curiously, is full of meteorological metaphors: a "hail" of bullets, the "fog" of battle.)

  • He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since "the walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets."


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