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Example sentences for: gunpoint

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

According to the LAT front, a study coming out today from the Simon Wiesenthal Center will charge that thousands of Jewish refugees were confined by the Swiss during World War II in special camps, sometimes behind barbed wire and at gunpoint.
In her twenty-minute speech, with few details, she said that the CIA had followed her and that she had once been stopped at gunpoint by law enforcement officers at Newark airport.
A nation holds its breath (well, except for those holding others at gunpoint).
In Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," a crotchety and self-centered grandmother, held at gunpoint by an escaped convict in rural Georgia, becomes suddenly sensitive.
An explanation: Last week, the magazine you are currently reading forced the Shopping Avenger at gunpoint to read a series of treacle-filled self-help books, and then to . The Shopping Avenger, who can withstand radiation, extreme heat and cold, hail, bear attacks, and Eyes Wide Shut , almost succumbed to terminal jejuneness after reading these books.