bullet

Example Sentences

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In 2019, he registered a trademark for an esoteric video game called “Bohrdom,” a “hybrid of a bullet hell and a racing game” based on atomic theory, in which electrons and protons compete.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 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

They were convinced that the bullet lay somewhere in the muscles of the lower abdomen near the groin.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow