bullet

Example Sentences

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That’s when a sleek, silver, oversized high-speed bullet train arrives on the scene.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

None of these reforms would be a silver bullet against revenge prosecutions, but together they would make such abuses far harder to carry out.

From Slate • May 1, 2026

Imagine it like this: It is late in the evening of April 15, 1865, and Abraham Lincoln has survived an assassination attempt, the bullet aimed by John Wilkes Booth having merely nicked his now-bandaged scalp.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

But reducing extreme ideas to their brutal implementation ignores all the events that precede the bullet.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

That bullet point about the window had sealed that for me.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin