How to Use pull the trigger in a Sentence

pull the trigger

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• But what to buy, how much to spend and when to pull the trigger are questions without easy answers.
  — James Loffler, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• Now may be the moment to finally pull the trigger on a purchase.
  — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 10 July 2026
• The trial, which is expected to last about a month, likely won't reveal who pulled the trigger.
  — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
• Foster-Todd took about 10 steps back before pulling the trigger, shooting the dog in the head.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2026
• Some of you might be saying, if $375 is the breakout, why not just wait until then before pulling the trigger.
  — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
• Jones' defense attorneys argued there was a struggle for the weapon and said Marcelle may have pulled the trigger.
  — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 30 June 2026
• Juliette is making the powers that be very nervous, almost forcing them to pull the trigger on the Safeguard.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 July 2026
• Once she was seated, Popham propped Bunyard's pump shotgun under Elaine's chin and pulled the trigger.
  — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026
• Public defenders representing Jones argued there was a struggle for the weapon and said Marcelle may have pulled the trigger.
  — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 29 June 2026
• In it, civilian Jordan Salinas is standing planted in a shooting stance, leveling a sidearm at Williams and pulling the trigger.
  — Idaho Statesman, 7 Aug. 2026
• Detectives came to believe that Blake pulled the trigger himself, after unsuccessfully approaching five people to do it for him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
• Smith revealed that Bristol management actually approached him before pulling the trigger on Clark.
  — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
• Jon Moxley argued with a conflicted Will Ospreay as Ospreay struggled to find a killer instinct and pull the trigger on his ailing friend.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
• During those interviews, Kelly admitted that Regan had been killed and initially blamed Jason for pulling the trigger.
  — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026
• In the years since Shakur’s murder, what exactly happened in that hail of bullets -- and who pulled the trigger -- was obscured by a lack of physical evidence, feuding cops and the gangland code of silence.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
• The woman who pulled the trigger is claiming self-defense, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating the shooting.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 2 July 2026
• If this gets ugly early in the season, does UNC pull the trigger and appoint offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino as interim head coach?
  — Trey Wallace Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
• Eight years after the fatal police shooting of Antwon Rose, a civil lawsuit is raising new questions — not just about the officer who pulled the trigger, but about whether he should have ever been hired by East Pittsburgh police in the first place.
  — Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 29 July 2026
• According to the Associated Press, prosecution isn’t interested in proving who actually pulled the trigger on Shakur.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2026
• The Jets dabbled with the likes of Russell Wilson, Carson Wentz and others, but never actually pulled the trigger on any of them (and talk of them reportedly offering Wilson a contract was overblown, by the way).
  — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 16 July 2026
• No one was ever charged with pulling the trigger, but three other men, Paul McIntyre, 58, Peter Cavanagh, 37, and Jordan Gareth Devine, 25, were charged with murder as accomplices for encouraging or assisting the shooter.
  — ABC News, 3 July 2026