How to Use gunpoint in a Sentence

gunpoint

noun
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  • The two were then forced at gunpoint into the car’s trunk.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
  • One by one, the paintings were snatched from the walls at gunpoint.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Marzolf stopped the teens and told them to lie face down on the ground at gunpoint.
    — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The same men now held Michelle and Breea at gunpoint in the living room.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • That’s the number of times they were held up at gunpoint.
    — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Pye kicked in the door and held Yarbrough at gunpoint, the court decision says.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The woman said the man ordered her, at gunpoint, to move over in the car, and told her not to look at him.
    — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • They were forced to remove their shoes at gunpoint and shot along the banks of the Danube River.
    — Miriam Porter, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Sadek said about a year and a half ago he was robbed at gunpoint by a team of three robbers.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • As Onoda held him at gunpoint, the tourist swore that the war was over.
    — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
  • That changed in 2016, when Kim was robbed at gunpoint in a Paris hotel room.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Bragg said that, as a child, he was held at gunpoint by police.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Yaakov sits on the floor, at gunpoint, as an intruder speaks to him.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Moïse is held at gunpoint as the room is ransacked in search of the document.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • The suspect, a 17-year-old Warrensville Heights boy, was ordered, at gunpoint, out of the van.
    — cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The car had been reported stolen at gunpoint from the city of Cleveland.
    — cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
  • One by one, the Ukrainians are led out into the daylight and forced at gunpoint to lie face down.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • At one point, where we were held at gunpoint, saying our last prayers.
    — TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The victim tells police that two men broke into the home and woke her up at gunpoint.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Iryna’s father, Volodymyr Abramov, who lived in a house next door, said that he and Oleh were held in the yard at gunpoint.
    — New York Times, 2 May 2022
  • Police said the victim was held at gunpoint while his home was searched.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2022
  • Owners were being held at gunpoint and robbed of all their day’s cash.
    — Curtis Chin, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022
  • The three assailants took some cash from the man and then forced him inside at gunpoint, said Sheriff’s Det.
    — Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • Balodis testified his friend also was knocked to the ground and robbed at gunpoint.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2022
  • They are being held at gunpoint by the same group that massacred their friends and loved ones.
    — Adam Sella, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The woman said she was held hostage at gunpoint and was not allowed to leave since Friday, April 5.
    — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
  • When McGee was around five or six, a group of men hijacked her father’s truck, and held him up at gunpoint.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 2 June 2022
  • As Long later described to a reporter, the men forced him into the back seat of the Honda at gunpoint.
    — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The juvenile is one of three Fort Smith teenagers accused of threatening a driver at gunpoint and setting out on a robbery spree Oct. 29.
    — Penny Weaver, arkansasonline.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • For years, farmers grew their poppies in mountains and valleys, away from the authorities that would, sometimes at gunpoint, impose taxes, demand a cut of the crop or even destroy their fields.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024

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