Sentence examples for Draw a bead on from inspiring English sources
Politically, it's hard to draw a bead on him.
Why doesn't the Iranian leader draw a bead on that important target instead of belching menace in every direction?
Throughout his 21 seasons in the majors, Johnson's emotions have always been easier to draw a bead on than his fastball.
At that time his pop tendencies registered as vaguely calculated, and it was hard to draw a bead on his taste.
All that would become meaningless when I'd clutch my driver and draw a bead on that 250-yard sign standing defiantly out in that ball-strewn expanse.
"It was," according to the Daily News, "something Hollywood could have scripted: three sharpshooters on the fantail of a destroyer, wearing night vision goggles as dusk settled over the sea, each drew a bead on one of the three teenage pirates standing 100 feet away in a pitching lifeboat aiming weapons at a bound (Capt. Richard Phillipss".
Spotting one of the shooters drawing a bead on 12-year-old Emma Pittman, she jumped into the line of fire, suffering mortal wounds to the chest and abdomen but shielding the sixth-grade student.
Staggered by a stretch on the front nine by three double-bogeys and one triple, he had drawn a bead on the tournament record for futility — a 94 by Gary Campbell 34 years ago — but steadied himself with pars on the five incoming holes.
"Just become one," I thought as I drew a bead on my targets.
These men and women are drawing a bead on 60.
