The phrase "a gunpoint" is not correct in standard English; it should be "at gunpoint." You can use it to describe a situation where someone is threatened with a gun, typically in the context of a robbery or hostage situation.
Example: "The cashier was forced to hand over the money at gunpoint."
Alternatives: "under threat of a gun" or "at the barrel of a gun."
A violent drug dealer makes a gunpoint escape from his trial at Exeter Crown Court.
A gunpoint robbery had happened just minutes before, leading the police to stop the minivan and take the driver into custody.
In another episode, officers arrested a man for taking up two seats in car at 3 a.m., and later discovered he was a suspect in a gunpoint robbery, Mr. Browne said.
Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said the chase began after officers pulled over three suspects in the minivan who were wanted in connection with a gunpoint robbery minutes before.
With more subplots than a telenovela -- family feuds and shifting alliances, a car crash and a gunpoint robbery -- the Assembly race, whose three candidates are all Democrats, is less about the candidates than who is behind them.
Mr. Perez, who was charged with two counts of murder, had been released on parole last summer after serving about four years for a gunpoint robbery in Greenwich Village.
The police charged a man yesterday with raping a woman at gunpoint in a children's clothing store on Monday afternoon.
This 2000 episode also involves a failed seduction, a man who talks too much in bed, a robbery at gunpoint and a sexually transmitted disease.
But Mr. Perez, who was on parole from a 1996 gunpoint robbery in Greenwich Village, told investigators that he was her boyfriend and denied any involvement in the murder.
It turned out there were charges against him in New Jersey, where he was accused of robbing a student at gunpoint in a high school in 2007.
Twenty years ago, when I was no older than the teens I was slated to address, I carjacked a man at gunpoint at a mall in Fairfax County, Virginia.
