Sentence examples for about a gunshot from inspiring English sources

Officers responded shortly before 1 a.m. to a call about a gunshot victim and found Mr. Grant lying in front of 249 East 115th Street.

Mr. Berman said that when police received a call at 10 36 a.m. about a gunshot in the neighborhood, Chief Bomba and Lieutenant Bouthillette, who were nearby, responded, which is not unusual in a small department in a borough that takes up only two square miles.

It is a movie about memory: a gunshot is always liable to trigger the memory of previous violence, the trauma lurks nearby, at point-blank range, part of a skein of remembered bloodshed extending backwards as the revenge plot pushes forwards.

To put that into perspective, that's about as loud as a gunshot or a jet engine running at 100mph.

He has so coarsened our politics that he remains a contender for the presidency despite musing about his opponent as a gunshot target.

Witnesses described hearing a loud crack that sounded like a gunshot about 12 30 a.m. as the boy crashed into a wooden shelf atop the circular bar and then onto a railing before hitting the floor.

e57f253a-c1d3-4479-8f74-0ab7e8363fe4 At the end of a wrenching piece about his experience surviving a gunshot wound, Salon's Brian Beutler describes why taking a bullet from a would-be mugger hasn't made him any more sympathetic to profiling in its various forms, or inclined to support policies like stop-and-frisk: … Take people's fear out of the equation and the logical artifice collapses.

One soldier's fury may set off another's, as was the case in a meeting where a soldier ran on too long, in Shrode's opinion, kvetching about a minor gunshot wound in his shoulder: "He was whining and complaining and I said: 'Shut up.

Silent-movie accompaniment, like circus music, is inherently an art of synchronization: it's about sharpening the idea of a gunshot, a pratfall, a sudden reveal.

Lyrically, it speaks about a love stronger than a gunshot, and according to Stacy-Ann Ellis of Vibe magazine it is a "less violent version" of Rihanna's 2011 single "Man Down".

About 40 miles west, Andrew VonStein, 51, was found with a gunshot wound Tuesday.