pistol-whip
verb
pis·tol-whip
pistol-whipped; pistol-whipping; pistol-whips
: to beat with a pistol
Examples of pistol-whip in a Sentence
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Prosecutors allege Walker was in communication with the juveniles via cell phone during the incident that ended with Jackson being pistol-whipped and shot three times in the back with a Beretta 9mm semiautomatic pistol.
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Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
Video showing Valerio pistol-whipping the robber and shooting him in the stomach also shows what took place in the minute and a half between the time two young men walked into a liquor store and when one of them lay bleeding on the sidewalk outside.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 May 2024
Listen to this article A Meriden man has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for committing an armed robbery spree in 2021 that sometimes turned violent and led to victims being pistol-whipped in the head.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2024
He himself had once been addicted to heroin, slept at bus stops and been pistol-whipped by drug dealers.
—Jessica Gallagher, New York Times, 3 June 2024
The victim told police he was pistol-whipped and his SUV was taken by the attackers.
—Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
Donning masks and pistols, the suspects kicked in the door of the outside residence, pistol-whipped and bound the man living there before robbing him of cash and other items, the documents say.
—Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
The product was a front-page article on March 17, 2008, that traced personal animosity between Tupac and the rap artist known as Biggie Smalls, or Notorious B.I.G., to a 1994 ambush at a New York recording studio at which Tupac had been robbed and pistol-whipped.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
The soldiers from the Third Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, marched into the city after police pistol-whipped and shot at a Black corporal Charles Baltimore, resulting in a brawl that claimed the lives of 19 people, including four African-American troops.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 15 Nov. 2023
Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
Video showing Valerio pistol-whipping the robber and shooting him in the stomach also shows what took place in the minute and a half between the time two young men walked into a liquor store and when one of them lay bleeding on the sidewalk outside.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 May 2024
Listen to this article A Meriden man has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for committing an armed robbery spree in 2021 that sometimes turned violent and led to victims being pistol-whipped in the head.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2024
He himself had once been addicted to heroin, slept at bus stops and been pistol-whipped by drug dealers.
—Jessica Gallagher, New York Times, 3 June 2024
The victim told police he was pistol-whipped and his SUV was taken by the attackers.
—Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
Donning masks and pistols, the suspects kicked in the door of the outside residence, pistol-whipped and bound the man living there before robbing him of cash and other items, the documents say.
—Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
The product was a front-page article on March 17, 2008, that traced personal animosity between Tupac and the rap artist known as Biggie Smalls, or Notorious B.I.G., to a 1994 ambush at a New York recording studio at which Tupac had been robbed and pistol-whipped.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
The soldiers from the Third Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, marched into the city after police pistol-whipped and shot at a Black corporal Charles Baltimore, resulting in a brawl that claimed the lives of 19 people, including four African-American troops.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 15 Nov. 2023
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