How To Use Point-blank In A Sentence
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A catapult fired point-blank, and flames broke over the roiled water, but it was pointless.
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Rovers very nearly got themselves back into the game within seconds, when Finn ran on to Gary Twigg's flick-on to head towards goal, but Ryzhikov made a fine reaction save to keep his effort out from point-blank range.
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But in an hour-long press conference which largely retrod the argument of yesterday's announcement, both men refused point-blank to comment on rumours of a new pact to pass the Labour leadership in return for entry to the euro.
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The victim was shot point-blank in the chest.
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Yet he refuses point-blank to tell us what his plan B is.
The Sun
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He had been gunned down and killed at point-blank range.
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He refused point-blank to identify his accomplices.
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I asked him point-blank whether he wanted the job
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And they got the point-blank answer from the North Koreans that, yes, they were and, in effect, what does the U.S. want to do about it?
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She does what I ask but refuses point-blank to obey her father.
The Sun
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The officer was shot dead at point-blank range .
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What, then, is the status of the direct, point-blank parody of bureaucrats scurrying behind blue blinds?
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Two point-blank shots are enough to destroy almost any vehicle.
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The victim was shot point-blank in the chest.
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No such luck; I was met with a point-blank refusal.
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Knowing all this, the Babu asked the Brahman point-blank to perform a false samadhi, that is to say, to feign an inspiration and to announce to the sorrowing mother that her late son's will had acted consciously in all the circumstances; that he brought about his end in the body of the flying fox, that he was tired of that grade of transmigration, that he longed for death in order to attain a higher position in the animal kingdom, that he is happy, and that he is deeply indebted to the sahib who broke his neck and so freed him from his abject embodiment.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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At first she point-blank refused to acknowledge its existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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If Mother couldn't open up to Christina, especially in the face of a point-blank question, she couldn't open up to anyone.
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This offer was refused point-blank and we reluctantly had to pay 100 each for new tickets.
Times, Sunday Times
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I suggested hiring a refuse skip and he refused this idea point-blank.
The Sun
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But in the face of a furious grilling from a clutch of increasingly bewildered MPs - including Motherwell and Wishaw's Frank Roy - he refused point-blank to tell them the correct number to dial.
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Jarod stared in disbelief, then raised his weapon and fired point-blank at Gabriel's chest.
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He refuses point-blank, saying he will take his chances.
The Sun
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The school point-blank refused to.
Times, Sunday Times
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He shot her at point-blank range.
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Alice knew they would wait until she was at point-blank range before opening fire.
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Teixeira regarded the order as a betrayal of his mission and refused point-blank.
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Moat crept up on him and blasted him in the face and chest from point-blank range.
The Sun
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The hunter shot the bear point-blank.
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I can't really identify what any of my boyfriends and I have had in common, but it was the first time someone had asked me point-blank, and I couldn't answer.
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Two bullets were fired into the car at point-blank range.
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I asked her point-blank whether she could get this message understood by her siblings.
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In the presence of the German military attaché, one of these CHEKA officials fired five shots almost point-blank at the ambassador.
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He fired the gun from point-blank range.
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If he refuses point-blank, you will have further evidence that you are being tucked away in a corner of his life.
The Sun
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He had been shot at point-blank range in the back of the head.
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Two bullets were fired into the car at point-blank range.
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The strategy could involve a point-blank refusal by landowners to give bodies such as power companies, councils or the Army access to their land.
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As soon as Kevin gave the order, they would fire at point-blank range at every ship that they could.
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I speak my mind, just like that, nakedly right out there in the open, shockingly point-blank in front of everybody.
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There was not an untrue word in the sentence, but it was not a point-blank denial.
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What, then, is the status of the direct, point-blank parody of bureaucrats scurrying behind blue blinds?
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He shot her at point-blank range.
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The new vest includes two 1.5kg inserts that protect the vital organs against 9mm submachine gun fire at point-blank range.
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He fired point-blank at the grinning skull resting against the doorpost.
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Another argument erupted, and one of the men pulled out a gun from his waist and fired at Jack at point-blank range.
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When the police brandished a post-mortem report which exonerated the cops from point-blank range killing, didn't we react by saying that the autopsy must have been fixed?
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Ohlund tied it again after pinching from the point and Luongo kept it tied with a point-blank pad save to take an empty net away from Boyes with 8 minutes left.
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In the blur of combat, he goes from heroic marksman to summary executioner, at one point preparing to finish off a disarmed youth with a point-blank shot.
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The bullet was fired at point-blank range .
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My brother had claimed Ryan wasn't a liar, but he was elusive so if I wanted to ask him a question, I'd have to do it point-blank.
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Such an assessment could be used, for example, to deny point-blank asylum applications from Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka.
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a point-blank accusation
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He fired the gun from point-blank range.
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A few minutes before the sunset and without firing any warning shots in the air or without prior effort to disperse the crowds gathered there, fire was opened from point-blank range at the assemblage.
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As I gazedinto Nora’s body cavity, I imagined what it would feel like to be shotpoint-blank in the chest, which is always a great time.
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A shot using an air gun at point-blank range can turn fatal.
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I can't think of many people who could get shot at point-blank range and turn it into a positive.
The Sun
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‘Then they told me that they wanted to ‘age’ the photographs of the man so I refused point-blank to let them have them.’
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The troubles in Limerick city continue with the point-blank shooting of a 30-year-old in Moyross by two masked gunmen.
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Then in '82 there had been the Egyptian garboil I mentioned a moment ago; Joe Wolseley had asked for me point-blank, and with the press applauding and the Queen approving and Elspeth bursting into tears as I rogered her farewell, what the blazes could I do but fall in?
Watershed
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And according to Helen Donovan, it's been made all the more difficult by the point-blank refusal to establish an International Crimes Tribunal.
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She fired point-blank at his chest.
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Too, of course, the stab from a shorter distance at closer range, point-blank range, so to speak, is likely to be more accurate.
Cinnamon Roll
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She pulled away at the last second, firing one, two, three shots point-blank into my side.
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Even if it's yes, given that I am asked such a point-blank question at a volume audible to the other colleagues, I have to keep up the straight face, put on the steady voice, maintain the poise and give a negative answer.
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Idriess's recreation of the massacre, during which two children were shot at point-blank range, makes grim reading.
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There was a vicious exchange at Stokesay castle, where adversaries fired at point-blank range between the castle and the church.
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Nancy, I'm saying in mid-January, the police were asked the question point-blank, and they said yes, he's cooperating.
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He had chances to get a second but missed a firsthalf sitter and then saw a point-blank shot saved.
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Why is it I'm dying from a shotgun blast from 10 feet away or so, but when I get a point-blank shot, people decidedly do not die?
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Switching to its cannon, Stephanie attempted to deliver a point-blank shot, which would be within the MW field's range.
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During a pitched gunfight in a hotel, he shoots one opponent, walks past him, pauses and shoots again at point-blank range.
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Joshua screamed as another three soldiers came into the room and fired, point-blank, into the creature's stomach.
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As we were dancing, I thought how reassuring it was that Scott sensed my discomfort and instead of point-blank saying ‘Get over him,’ he tried to be more of the shoulder to cry on.
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He fired point-blank into the ant's thorax, blowing the creature in half.
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Then terror flared in the eyes of friends with a better view: of teens and young adults crumpling to the ground, blood streaming from point-blank bullet wounds.
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A general strike, Leon Trotsky once wrote, poses the question of power point-blank.
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He rejected their invitation point-blank.
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During our interview, Tory rode the middle on most issues, qualifying his policy statements with casualness and indifference when questioned point-blank.
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Firing at point-blank range, roughly one hundred militia men killed one of their opponents.
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When the police brandished a post-mortem report which exonerated the cops from point-blank range killing, didn't we react by saying that the autopsy must have been fixed?
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I sent him, therefore, the book, carefully sealed up, with an intimation that I requested the favour of his opinion upon the contents, of which I affected to talk in the depreciatory style, which calls for point-blank contradiction, if your correspondent possess a grain of civility.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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At this point-blank range Bradley could just detect, with his unaided ears, a piccololike subharmonic as the robot scanned the obstacle ahead, and tried to identify it.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks
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Firing a thoron pistol into the chests of unarmed men from point-blank range.
Distant Shores
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The bullet was fired at point-blank range .
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They were enjoying their best spell of the game on 62 minutes, tightening the noose around Ashton when United broke and a shot thundered into Joe McMahon's arm from point-blank range.
