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

Tom evidently had not suffered in his aim because of allowing his chum the first chance to pull trigger.

From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by Rathborne, St. George

"I shall pull trigger with a steadier hand, ma'am, when I think that your father's daughter is praying for me."

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

Ben was sorely tempted to level and pull trigger; but, still fearing that even at that close distance the snipe-shot would scatter and do no hurt, he held back.

From Ran Away to Sea by Reid, Mayne

I don’t want any feller in the crowd that’ll say he didn’t pull trigger on Bonbright.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice