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point-blank example sentences
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1. The result was what Simon expected, he watched helpless as the gunman shot the waiter in the back at point-blank range
2. She refused point-blank to believe me
3. After fourteen hours of artillery fire on Chapultepec Castle, five hundred volunteers known as “the Forlorn Hope” used ladders to climb into point-blank fire
4. idea down a second time at point-blank range
5. Zoe and Bianca fired at their heads point-blank, but the arrows just whistled straight through their empty skulls
6. as the gravel crunched beneath Horn-Rims’ feet and he stepped to within point-blank
7. Ask the parents point-blank what their discipline policies are
8. Instead of pursuing the root metaphor Hank took a sudden turn and point-blank asked Bob if his company could use another associate
9. “I don’t think your Dad’s interested in seeing me,” she said point-blank
10. The Commissioner refused point-blank
11. and then a point-blank shot lit up a distorted face
12. Sure, the bouncers in Atlantic City had guns, but they weren’t aiming them in my direction at point-blank range
13. Once the Neanderthal has thrown his only spear? ulp… Then the Cro-Magnon could come closer to throw his other spears … Then he could throw his spear at almost point-blank range
14. “You heard me, you jerk! I never wanted you in my school, and you can believe me that I have a file on you a mile thick, but with this one, I should be able to get you fired, you jerk!” He really liked calling me a jerk, as if it was a bullet that he kept firing at me from point-blank range
15. She was panting heavily, as she held a 9mm trained on my head at point-blank range
16. While the athletes of the other nations remained more or less at attention, the Americans began to meander about, checking things out—peering down the barrels of some field artillery pieces that had been arrayed facing them point-blank, studying the monolithic stone sculptures at the entrance to the stadium, or simply stretching out on the damp grass and pulling their straw hats over their faces for a nap
17. Riefenstahl cleverly intercut long shots of the progress of the boats with close-ups of Bobby Moch and the other coxswains barking commands point-blank into the camera
18. The shooting was all point-blank, and bullets were flying everywhere
19. As the convoy crossed an open area in the dark, a vast, entrenched Chinese force ambushed it from point-blank range
20. They had, indeed, seen what HMS Delthak’s guns could do at point-blank range
21. Moonless night had fallen before they could drive home their attack, however, and the engagement had come apart in a wild confusion of guns firing at point-blank range
22. Bullock fired twice, point-blank, and the hit man dropped out of sight, as if he had stepped through a trap door
23. I moved with them, wanting a point-blank situation
24. Finally she refused point-blank
25. Merriwether, who never let her curiosity go long unsatisfied if she could help it, asked him point-blank just what he meant by marrying one sister when he was betrothed to the other
26. She had been curious about this for so long that she could not refrain from asking the point-blank question
27. As the negro came running to the buggy, his black face twisted in a leering grin, she fired point-blank at him
28. were forced to ask Captain Butler point-blank questions which was most distressing to business and property you may own
29. My father addressed himself to the gentleman point-blank, and there was quite a disturbance
30. And that was when he asked her, point-blank: “Are you happy, Mom?” The honest answer was No
31. One day, when he was doing some valuation for me, he told me point-blank that clergymen seldom understood anything about business, and did mischief when they meddled; but he said it as quietly and respectfully as if he had been talking to me about sailors
32. Then he barely grazed me on the steps of the Hall from point-blank range
33. The ninja kids paused, hesitating, then quickly raised their weapons, aiming at me point-blank
34. I refuse your charter point-blank
35. The dramatic poet might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson
36. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement
37. They were at the top of a wall, and they thundered point-blank upon the soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the escarpment
38. Now it had been her custom to launch out into fervent admiration of what she called my ‘beauté mâle:’ wherein she differed diametrically from you, who told me point-blank, at the second interview, that you did not think me handsome
39. But he point-blank ignored her
40. It is said that when the Emperor’s column approached Gzhatsk they found the road strewn with freshly-slain Russians, all with their heads blown open in the same manner, by a point-blank shot, and their blood and brains scattered around
41. stands out so clearly is intense aversion, intense hostility, the very opposite of love, and Anna Andreyevna suddenly asks point-blank, ' Do you love her ? ' Can she have heard so little about it ? It's wild I She was laughing, I assure you she was laughing ! "
42. I asked him point-blank, and with great coolness, why he wanted it ? And to this day I can't understand such a degree of simplicity in a man who was apparently no fool, and who was a " business man," as Vassin had said of him ! He explained to me quite openly that he suspected " that something prohibited and sternly prohibited was going on at Dergatchev's, and so if I watch him I may very likely make something by it
