How to Use at gunpoint in a Sentence

at gunpoint

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• In each, police said a group of three men and a woman walk up to a victim and take the victim's phone at gunpoint.
  — Dylan Olsen, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
• The victim was ordered out of the water at gunpoint and forced to empty his pockets before he was assaulted.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
• Instead, authorities say he was robbed at gunpoint by the woman and another man.
  — Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
• Two soldiers who initially seemed kind took her into the jungle, held her at gunpoint and raped her while holding her mouth shut to stifle her screams.
  — ABC News, 23 July 2026
• Journalists and military members were held at gunpoint at a Space Force base.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
• There is no better illustration of speechlessness being deployed as a weapon, forcing the loquacious, as if at gunpoint, to fill the void with words.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
• Mingo allegedly entered each of the stores late at night -- after all or nearly all customers had left -- and robbed employees at gunpoint, officials said.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
• An altercation occurred inside the apartment, after which the victims were ordered to the floor at gunpoint, according to police.
  — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
• Once inside, Ibarra and his friends terrorized the woman and an unidentified person, holding them at gunpoint and knifepoint, per the report.
  — Logan Smith, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
• But white supremacists took back control of the city's multi-racial government at gunpoint, and launched a wave of violence that killed scores of Black residents.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 10 July 2026
• Those include instances of mistakes leading to innocent people being stopped and detained at gunpoint, as well as officers using data to stalk women.
  — Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2026
• Harris gave the teen verbal commands at gunpoint and Eccles complied, according to GBI.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 July 2026
• The filing alleges that Palazuelos was arrested at gunpoint and held without probable cause for approximately seven to eight hours.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2026
• Listening in from a nearby water tower via a wire, Rand realizes Kershaw’s connection to the plot and holds him at gunpoint, sparking a fierce brawl between them.
  — Max Gao, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
• According to the claim, Daniel Maddox, was held at gunpoint, handcuffed, and then arrested outside the family home during the same incident.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2026
• The two employees were conducting seasonal fieldwork near a campground when two men, a father and son, abducted them at gunpoint, zip-tied them and led them to a remote trailer, according to officials.
  — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
• Prosecutors say the three victims, including a man who worked as a driver for Arnold, were robbed while being held at gunpoint in a Tampa apartment in February.
  — John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
• The police had cleared the building, methodically smashing in the doors of the English department room by room, and had finally ushered my brother and his professors outside at gunpoint.
  — Hazlitt, 25 Feb. 2026
• Here, the McPoyle twins (joined by deaf-mute sister and probable lover Margaret, played by Thesy Surface) burst into Paddy’s to take the Gang hostage at gunpoint.
  — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
• The week’s biggest stories Crime, court and policing The California Forest Service says two of its workers were taken hostage and held at gunpoint in a remote trailer.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
• An Arizona Shake Shack employee is facing charges after allegedly robbing his own restaurant at gunpoint, locking two co-workers in a walk-in cooler and then returning to work in uniform just two days later.
  — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
• Prosecutors say the victims were robbed at gunpoint after traveling to the city to discuss Pooh Shiesty's recording contract with Mane's 1017 Records.
  — ABC News, 2 July 2026
• Their one major interaction before Juliette’s Silo 17 adventure came when Juliette held Camille and her son Anthony at gunpoint.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026
• Police are looking for three suspects who allegedly held a parking garage attendant at gunpoint and got away with a Lamborghini and a Porsche in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood.
  — Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
• The mother of an 11-year-old Minnesota boy who was kidnapped at gunpoint, assaulted and later killed, and another victim of a childhood abduction and assault, spoke out about trauma, healing and their advocacy work in new interviews.
  — Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 17 July 2026
• Florida state prosecutors allege that in February 2026, Arnold coordinated and directed his codefendants to lure three men to an apartment where the men were robbed, beaten and held at gunpoint.
  — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 29 June 2026
• The investigation began after Randle falsely reported that Dinkins had been kidnapped at gunpoint in New Castle County, Delaware.
  — Ashley Paul, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
• Two Florida men have been indicted after one of them, disguised as a utility worker, robbed a local family at gunpoint and zip-tied the victims—including a 13-year-old boy—the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
  — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
• The two employees were conducting fieldwork when two armed people took them hostage at gunpoint early Thursday, Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue said at a news conference Friday.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 17 July 2026
• The suspect, later identified as Joseph Henrichsen, 49, allegedly zip-tied the two Forest Service members and held them at gunpoint in a trailer near Gumboot Lake, LaRue told reporters.
  — Alex Stone, ABC News, 17 July 2026