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
• 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 Jacksonville plant also makes pistol night sights and sits on more than 60 acres.
  — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• At the same time, pistol production in the U.S. increased by nearly 1,300%.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The man from King George, Virginia, had a .22 caliber pistol with five bullets.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
• Three weapons – an AR-style rifle, an AR-style pistol and a handgun – were found.
  — CNN, 13 Nov. 2023
• Baldwin was rehearsing for a scene with the pistol when the gun went off, according to NBC News.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
• Last year, for example, Rock Island sold a kit with a cross-shaped pistol for $4,000.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2023
• Hip-hop artists such as Snoop Dogg inserted the pistol name into song lyrics.
  — Jay Caruso, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• Well at first probably with swords, but then with pistols.
  — Jesse Ball, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• He is accused of pistol whipping her and stealing her purse.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 5 Sep. 2023
• The administrators found the gun, and the student allegedly shot them and fled, still armed with the pistol.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 23 Mar. 2023
• Lott said the convenience store owner, who police said was armed with a pistol, and his son chased after the teen.
  — Brittany Gaddy, ABC News, 2 June 2023
• The State of New York revoked his pistol permit, and Banyai was ordered to surrender his firearms.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
• Sanders has been held in jail since May 2022, when he was charged with carrying a pistol without a license.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• Chase called the number and arranged to meet the next day with a buyer, providing him with a Glock 9mm pistol in exchange for $450.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2023
• For better or for worse, the Republican race for the White House has long seen its starting pistol fire from Iowa.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 12 July 2023
• Over the next several minutes, the teenagers said they’d almost been chased off the road and blocked — and by 7:20 p.m., were face down in the middle of a road with a pistol pointing at them.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• The couple had just a single pistol to protect them, Noam Tibon said.
  — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024