Sentence examples for Pistol from inspiring English sources
The word "Pistol" is correct in written English
It is typically used to refer to a type of handgun. Example: "He carried a pistol in a holster on his belt."
noun
A handgun, with a chamber integrated in the barrel, a semi-automatic action and a box magazine.
But when a crook waved a pistol in Leonardo Bonucci's face last October, the Juventus defender punched his assailant twice before chasing him up the street.
She enlisted Edgecombe for protection, and gave him a Luger pistol that she had acquired for the purpose.
They also want to know: "How much is a Glock pistol?" "Which is the best rebel group to join?" "Is there training in jujitsu?" One of the most extraordinary questions, given the carnage in Syria, is: "Would it be wise to come there with my wife and one-year-old son?" The man replies, not surprisingly: "The situation right now isn't the best for families".
There are four of them: the pistol-toting medic with the silver hair, the Goth techy idly cradling an energy pistol, the tiny woman in big boots slapping a plank of wood in her fist, and the sharp-talking shotgunner.
US diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks described Khan's Russian hunting lodge as looking "like a Four Seasons hotel in the middle of nowhere", and he was said to come "to dinner armed with a chrome-plated pistol".
Harriet Harman was the first to jump the gun - or at least to say that when the starting pistol was eventually fired, a woman should be among the runners.
Sheriff's deputies told WALB-TV that 54-year-old Larry McElroy fired his 9mm pistol at the armadillo on Sunday night in the southern state of Georgia.
Hernan Dario Gomez, a Colombian who has got Ecuador to its first finals, has a genuine claim to hero status, not just for his coaching success but also for agreeing to stay on in the job after being shot and pistol-whipped, apparently by hoodlums employed by a former president who felt that his son should have been picked for Ecuador's under-21 side.
He began running drugs as a teenager, picking up consignments of marijuana and cocaine near the border with Mexico and selling them around Texas.With such a background, it is perhaps not surprising that Mr Amaya was arrested after pistol-whipping a girlfriend and is today, at 28, about to finish a long sentence for aggravated assault.
The same pistol-toting thugs tried to abduct him from his sickbed, but fled when another patient raised the alarm.
Yet one may have pistol-whipped the store keeper, while the second may merely have acted as a lookout.
