gunpoint

How To Use gunpoint In A Sentence

• The terrified family were handcuffed, had pillows pulled over their heads and were held at gunpoint overnight.
• Every week in our local newspaper we read of yet another shop or post office that has been robbed, often at gunpoint.
• One night, in 1976, he was forced to spring from bed to defend his family at gunpoint when a baying republican mob broke into his home.
• Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. Christopher Hitchens 
• Can you believe it, some chap with a beard stole my clothes at gunpoint?
• According to one of the three security officers at the warehouse, four masked men armed with a pistol entered the premises and forced them at gunpoint to gulp down a bottle of arrack, a strong alcoholic drink.
• UNRWA reported that yesterday (3 Feb 2009) Hamas armed assailants took at gunpoint 3500 blankets and 406 food parcels from the UNRWA distribution center at the beach refugee camp (Shati). The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
• A few hours later, after having been dragged out of the hotel at gunpoint, my worst nightmare had come true.
• Gunman assaults woman after terror drive POLICE appealed yesterday for witnesses after a woman was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted.
• The actor was involved in a real - life drama when he was held up at gunpoint last night.