How to Use pistol in a Sentence

pistol

noun

• When Miller stopped the car, Rice put the pistol to the back of Miller's head and pulled the trigger.
  — Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• The point of a pistol is to shoot someone who is unarmed.
  — Jesse Ball, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• When he couldn’t, he was pistol whipped and brought back to the car, the documents say.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
• One of the assailants retrieved a pistol and chased after the 16-year-old.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
• The woman told police that White, her ex-boyfriend, had struck her in the face with a pistol and fled.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2023
• The officer drew his pistol and pinned Grisham to the hood.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Falcons had no rushes in the shotgun and an 81% run play rate out of pistol.
  — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• The pistol was found underwater on one side of a small bridge that spans the canal.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
• The Jacksonville plant also makes pistol night sights and sits on more than 60 acres.
  — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
• Dearman then managed to pry a .45 pistol from one of the victims and shot him.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• Races started with a pistol shot, and judges started a hand timer to be stopped when the winner crossed the line.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
• Witnesses said the 17-year-old had pointed the black pistol at the victim and his friends.
  — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
• Reed fired his pistol once, shooting the cousin in her torso, the warrant said.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2024
• The man then got a pistol out of a pickup truck and began shooting at the other two men.
  — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Lewis later said the pistol had simply slipped from the dashboard to the floorboard.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2022
• The driver was found with a pistol in his front right pocket and was disarmed.
  — Jason Wolf, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024
• When the wife fires a warning shot with her pistol, the moose finally runs away.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Pow pow pow goes a pistol, and a Native warrior falls down.
  — The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
• The victim also told police that one of the suspects was armed with a pistol.
  — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• So, just because your career didn’t take off at the starter pistol doesn’t mean the race is already over.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
• Chow, armed with a pistol, and his son chased Carmack-Belton and the boy fell down, then got back up.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• The junior quarterback made the correct reads out of the pistol offense.
  — Chris Vogt, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2023
• Robin says Lindsay, 36, threatened her life and owns a pistol.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2023
• The girl’s adult sibling was found slumped over in a car with a pistol in his hand not long after, police say.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023
• The gun was later determined to be a Glock replica BB-gun pistol, the video says.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2024
• At the same time, pistol production in the U.S. increased by nearly 1,300%.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
• Fierro charged the gunman, knocked away his rifle, took his pistol, and beat him with it.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 22 Nov. 2022
• Hospital staff said that there was no exchange of fire, and that the three men in Room 376 were shot in the head with silenced pistols.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Vem Miller, 49, was arrested on gun charges Saturday after police found a loaded pistol and shotgun in his car.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Bui was arrested Sunday just after noon at his San Jose home, where investigators reported seizing three guns, including two Glock .40-caliber pistols.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024