pull trigger
Example Sentences
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“Lightly pull trigger until cheese extrudes from tip,” read the instructions, and you can’t help but think: “My God, what have we done?”
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2017
I had raised my piece, sighted the noble game, and was about to pull trigger, when, to my astonishment, the animal sprang off from the cliff; and, turning back downward, fell heavily into the gorge!
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
I was about to pull trigger a second time, when suddenly there darted between me and the charging brute a human form—Umkopo.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by J. Erskine (John Erskine) Clarke
The men were panting with eagerness, but not one was allowed to pull trigger, nor was a cannon fired.
From The Star of Gettysburg A Story of Southern High Tide by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Level at the cliff yonder, but let no man pull trigger!
From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol
