BULLET in a Sentence

Learn BULLET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
143 example sentences for BULLET, such as:
1. The bullet hit him in the chest.
2. The bullet glanced off the wall.
3. He was killed by a single bullet.
4. A bullet lamed the soldier for life.
5. He has a bullet wound in the left arm.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BULLET
bullet
 n.  a projectile that is fired from a gun
 n.  (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
Classic Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
1  That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
2  There is not one which has not had its bullet or its biscayan.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  At Marengo, I received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER
4  Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJ...
5  A second bullet struck the other guard, who had assaulted Courfeyrac in the breast, and laid him low on the pavement.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJ...
6  The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE
7  Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE
8  At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
9  A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
10  There a fourth bullet missed him, again.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
11  A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
12  One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
13  A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him short.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
14  At the moment when he had stooped to lift Gavroche, a bullet had grazed his head; he had not noticed it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT
15  He seemed to be waiting there for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  He has a bullet wound in the left arm.
2  The bullet glanced off the wall.
3  The bullet penetrated three inches into the wall.
4  Amazingly, the bullet did not penetrate his brain.
5  The bullet struck a wall and was deflected from its course.
6  It is a bullet from the same gun that killed the Italian.
7  He died after receiving two bullet wounds in the head.
8  The bullet hit him in the chest.
9  The corpses of the prisoners were nearly unrecognizable from the number of bullet wounds they'd received.
10  Surgeons are trying to remove a bullet lodged near his spine.
11  The bullet merely creased his shoulder.
12  The bullet hit him squarely between the shoulder blades.
13  One bullet pierced the left side of his chest.
14  He was killed by a single bullet.
15  A bullet lamed the soldier for life.