How To Use Gunpoint In A Sentence
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The terrified family were handcuffed, had pillows pulled over their heads and were held at gunpoint overnight.
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Every week in our local newspaper we read of yet another shop or post office that has been robbed, often at gunpoint.
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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.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. Christopher Hitchens
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Can you believe it, some chap with a beard stole my clothes at gunpoint?
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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.
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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
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A few hours later, after having been dragged out of the hotel at gunpoint, my worst nightmare had come true.
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Gunman assaults woman after terror drive POLICE appealed yesterday for witnesses after a woman was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted.
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The actor was involved in a real - life drama when he was held up at gunpoint last night.
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She was kidnapped and sexually assaulted at gunpoint.
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I have been robbed at gunpoint only to watch the assailants walk away scot-free.
At Veto Announcement, McGinn Says He’ll “Accelerate” Neighborhood Policing Even Without Additional Officers « PubliCola
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His defense, that the street was nothing but an open sewer anyway, failed to sway the arresting policeman who marched him across town at gunpoint to pay a fine of one piastre four francs.
The Path Between the Seas
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The pistol-caliber carbine, with its light recoil and mild report, offers an intimidating appearance when seen by a burglar at gunpoint.
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One was interrogated at gunpoint and threatened by the Americans.
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The scene where Wales turns the tables on two mountain men holding him at gunpoint is worth the admission price all by itself.
My Favorite Gun Movie
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Haggis was car-jacked at gunpoint coming out of a video store in Los Angeles.
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The men allegedly forced him at gunpoint to drive to Stilfontein where money was withdrawn from his bank account.
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2004 - The Scream, the painting by Edvard Munch, is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
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How can you not see that imposing a democracy at gunpoint is an oxymoron?
Think Progress » George Will vs. William Kristol.
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One woman told reporters that officers had held her face down at gunpoint, interrogated her in front of her two young children and turned the residence ‘upside down’.
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He has gotten himself into many situations in small towns where he has been run out of a house at gunpoint.
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Three teenage boys were threatened at gunpoint by a youth on Wandsworth Common in two separate incidents.
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He got robbed at gunpoint in Mexico.
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Apparently a lorry carrying a rubbish skip was hi-jacked in nearby Pomeroy several hours ago and the driver held at gunpoint.
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They threatened the four at gunpoint and bundled them into a van with blacked-out windows.
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Two 16-year-old boys were among six people held at gunpoint and tied up in a restaurant robbery.
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Armed robbers escaped with a haul of cash after threatening the owner of a Bradford newsagent's at gunpoint.
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No, but I've heard of martial artists being kidnapped and made to fight at gunpoint by bikers.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. Christopher Hitchens
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A purse was taken at gunpoint.
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And when players tried to get out, they were, it is alleged, ordered back in at gunpoint.
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He was arrested at gunpoint last October, and is in jail facing charges of tax evasion, forgery and fraud.
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Two University of Minnesota students lost wallets, cash and cell phones, but otherwise were unhurt when they were robbed at gunpoint on campus Wednesday night, police said.
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None of the French masters whose works were stolen at gunpoint from a Swiss museum this week makes it: Dégas is at 15, Cézanne at 25.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Boris sought asylum in Britain after being threatened at gunpoint by Russian gangsters.
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Gunman assaults woman after terror drive POLICE appealed yesterday for witnesses after a woman was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted.
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The idea that anyone was going to 'force these people from their homes at gunpoint' (in order to make way for a bunch of 'Germans') is more demagogical nonsense.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The actor was involved in a real - life drama when he was held up at gunpoint last night.
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The pair, both wearing black balaclavas, held three women at gunpoint with a small black pistol, while demanding money from the tills.
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He had a problem: His wife and son were being held hostage at gunpoint.
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A woman who gave birth prematurely after she was held up at gunpoint by a prison escapee has successfully sued the government for negligence.
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He tried to salvage a silver cup embellished with antique gold medallions but threw it back at gunpoint.
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Picturesque and historic as it is, it'll never come back until you block off freeway access to the burbs, and force people downtown at gunpoint.
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We have an emergency button to press if some maniac is holding us at gunpoint.
Ground Control To Major Tom. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The employees were marched into the walk-in freezer at gunpoint and locked inside.
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She hog-ties Robert at gunpoint and puts him on trial for his alleged crime.
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Two intruders were involved in the raid, in which four occupants of the house were threatened at gunpoint and told to hand over money.
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When he refused to give up his plans, despite being threatened at gunpoint, he was tortured.
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Spiked cages surround baroque colonial villas; apartment doors are reinforced and guarded at gunpoint.
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The family were held at gunpoint overnight.
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The current problems in the local authorities cannot be solved at gunpoint as the strikes seem to believe.
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These children had been held at gunpoint with explosive charges placed among them.
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They rounded up the inhabitants at gunpoint, herded them into American Studebaker trucks supplied under the lend-lease program, and drove them to the Grozny railway station, where they were packed into cattle wagons.
The Return
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He said they were hampered by dreadful roads, frequent road blocks and gunpoint identity checks by the soldiers in the area because of the ongoing conflict.
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She and her two daughters were held at gunpoint by a gang who burst into their home.
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He was one of 10 convicted prisoners who escaped from the prison on June 8 after holding up prison warders at gunpoint and locking them in a cell.
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He was held up at gunpoint by a gang of masked youths.
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The raider made him open the bank, then threatened staff at gunpoint as they arrived for work.
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A 19-year-old man told police he had been taken at gunpoint from Manchester city centre, made to take drugs and then crashed his vehicle.
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Robbers held up a bank at gunpoint.
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Supporters held my opponents at gunpoint while they stuffed the ballot boxes.
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The men were held at gunpoint by soldiers and asked to raise their lungis.
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Police say he held the woman at gunpoint for about an hour.
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Statistics are used naively at best: the datum that gunpoint robberies rose 53 percent between April and November of 2001 is almost certainly a random fluctuation and not by itself useful to the argument.
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During their three-day trip, two members of the delegation were mugged at gunpoint on the streets of Memphis.
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Police are hunting a man after a woman was robbed at gunpoint in a Bradford subway.
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Police have broken down doors, screamed obscenities, and held innocent people at gunpoint only to discover that what they thought were marijuana plants were really sunflowers, hibiscus, ragweed, tomatoes, or elderberry bushes.
John W. Whitehead: The War on Drugs Has Become the War on the American People
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Spiked cages surround baroque colonial villas; apartment doors are reinforced and guarded at gunpoint.
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You can't be snoring in your bedroom and at the same time be holding up innocent citizens on the beach at gunpoint.
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The women he had threatened at gunpoint pleaded for the picture of the "tsotsi" to be used on page one.
IOL: News
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Most of us agree that grabbing someone else’s money at gunpoint is immoral.
Coyote Blog » 2005 » April
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But it's better than simply walking into the shop and taking a bike at gunpoint, which is what recently happened in Issaquah, WA:
Brazen Schemes: RTMS and Sympathy
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Soon we'll have crimes of laughter where dufuses force their way into homes and attempt stand up routines at gunpoint.
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Before you can even begin to get your bearings, you are pulled from the car and pushed down an alleyway at gunpoint.
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A postmaster has described his horrifying ordeal as he was threatened at gunpoint by three masked robbers, who escaped with a substantial amount of cash.
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If political stability could be achieved by toppling a rotten dictator or if nations could be built at gunpoint, this problem would not be so pressing.
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The actor was involved in a real - life drama when he was held up at gunpoint last night.
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Years of being scared of the Subway and being mugged at gunpoint meant that somewhere I longed to visit always seemed out of reach.
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Family homes forsaken at gunpoint were promptly occupied by the peasantry, who deny all knowledge of past owners.
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Then we have Romo losing it, having cat hallucinations and threatening Lee at gunpoint, which is all extremely silly.
Galacticawatch 6: Season 4, Eps 6-9
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BROWNSVILLE - Police are investigating after an elderly woman was beaten and robbed at gunpoint in Brownsville July 17.
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This was an entirely illegal military coup that was speciously legitimatized at what appears to have been gunpoint.
Jules Siegel: Honduras Supreme Court: It Was "Common Knowledge" That Zelaya Was No Longer President UPDATE
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From April to November 2001, the number of people robbed at gunpoint in London rose 53 percent.
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One held the shop's security guard at gunpoint while a second raider frogmarched a female member of staff into its office and ordered her to open a safe.
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An armed robber who terrorised staff at his local pharmacy at gunpoint to get prescribed drugs, has been jailed for six years.
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Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol.
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Several miles below Abilene, John Wesley Hardin took a pair of pants from a luckless cowboy at gunpoint, ordering the man on into town in his underdrawers.
THE AMERICAN WEST
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Having served in both professions, you are correct in pointing out that there are times when holding someone at gunpoint is appropriate.
The Rules of Gunfighting
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We have even read stories of clients of the smugglers being forced at gunpoint by Indonesian armed forces to join and stay on obviously unseaworthy boats.
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Thirteen months earlier he had threatened the York City Art Gallery's terrified attendants at gunpoint and plundered the city of some of its most precious treasures.
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Police yesterday launched a massive hunt for a thug who robbed a terrified pub landlady at gunpoint.
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Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol.
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Mr Dragseth had been taken from his home at gunpoint by pro-Noriega supporters on the day after the invasion.
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This recent incident of Fox News journalists becoming Muslim by gunpoint is just another smear on Islam.
Salaam 'alaikum (peace be unto you).
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He was one of 10 convicted prisoners who escaped from the prison on June 8 after holding up prison warders at gunpoint and locking them in a cell.
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In 2001, two terrified women bank workers were hijacked in their car at gunpoint as they drove to work at the same bank.
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Armed police with a back-up helicopter hovering overhead sealed off part of a village as a man terrorised his ex-partner at gunpoint.
