bull's-eye

Example Sentences

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And while rain continued to fall in some northern portions of the state on Monday, Ms. Hochul said the “bull's-eye” of the storm had moved northeast.

From New York Times

Never before has one of the world’s largest nuclear facilities fallen into the bull's-eye of a large-scale war.

From New York Times

“And after doing many measurements, we hit the bull's-eye,” said another of the study’s authors, Fabian Klenner, who is now an astrobiologist at the University of Washington.

From New York Times

There was a lot more with Mohammed's character I wanted to show — here is a man who fought a country, and now has a bull's-eye on his back.

From Salon

“I remember my editor saying: ‘If there’s one scene that’s got a bull's-eye on it, it’s this one,’” Johnstone said, even suggesting there were moments he was losing faith.

From New York Times