Sentence examples for at a mark from inspiring English sources

Cain fired to catcher Buster Posey, who applied the tag and soon gasped at a mark on Cain's wrist.

Shooting at a mark as a test of skill began with archery, long before the advent of firearms (c. 1300).

Shooting at a mark was recorded in 1737 when the empress Anna established a target-shooting range at her court.

"Whoa!" Dotolo said suddenly, pointing at a mark on the forehead of a middle-aged woman in a station wagon nearby.

The warnings were stark and issued repeatedly as far back as 1972: If the cooling systems ever failed at a "Mark 1" nuclear reactor, the primary containment vessel surrounding the reactor would probably burst as the fuel rods inside overheated.

My training had included many slide shows about the stigmata of cigarette burns, belt marks and other suspicious injuries, but it was the first time I had been the person alone on the front line, looking at a mark on a child, knowing something was wrong.

Institutions get the shares and then the public gets to buy them at a mark-up.

Most of the bidders seem to be habitués — professionals seeking bargains to sell at a mark-up in their boutiques.

* Rather than sell boring mineral water at a mark-up, Pepsico launched a new power drink, V Water.

It continues to provide state-owned firms with loans and land which many of them then rent on at a mark-up to the private sector.

Some of these will be for his personal use, and the rest he'll flog to less tech-savvy classmates at a mark-up of up to 300%.