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Discover LudwigThe phrase "draw a pistol" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to take a pistol out of its holster or to prepare to use it. Example: The sheriff slowly approached the bandit, his hand ready to draw his pistol at any moment.
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The 42-year-old electronics store owner peered outside and saw an Iraqi soldier draw a pistol on a young woman wearing a black robe.
We could draw a pistol in a darkened room and put two rounds in a man's forehead in a four-inch circle.
But if policemen less scrupulous than Mr Wilson are not to continue getting away with murder, the law needs to be tightened – and officers made to fear for their own future when they draw a pistol on a civilian.
Position yourself about 7-yards (the distance the FBI determined a man could move in a second and a half — about the time it takes to draw a pistol and fire) away from a large (10+ inch) target.
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He backs up from his desk and draws a pistol.
The robber then stepped back, drew a pistol and "fired into the car," the police said.
The biker drew a pistol and shot the scientist dead through the car window.
Taken aback by officers pouring on to the scene, Harger drew a pistol.
He turned to his wife, and the gunman drew a pistol and shot him in the neck.
A woman who resembles a young Jacqueline Kennedy enters, apparently the man's wife, draws a pistol from her pocketbook, and shoots.
Fisher complied, but en route he drew a pistol, shot himself and sustained an injury that felled him from his horse.
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