Sentence examples for gunpoint it from inspiring English sources

If we react callously to Kim Kardashian being reportedly bound, gagged, and robbed at gunpoint, it's just because she totally faked it for attention or an insurance payout (we assume).

"When the federal government was stopped from enforcing the law at gunpoint, it energised the entire movement".

The boss of a zone she once wandered into without authorisation held her at gunpoint: "It was pretty heavy at first, but then a guy I know came along and recognised me, and he managed to calm things down.

Robbers steal it from a restaurant at gunpoint; it is illegally churned by dealers in a motor home, "Breaking Bad -style, for sale on the Bad -styleet; and the last slice oforouign-amann — a delicacy whosalereton-language name thenslates as "blackr cake" — is auctioned off.

If I had to hold up any one department of Harrods at gunpoint, it would be this one.

A person called 911 and reported his laptop had been stolen at gunpoint; later, it was revealed the victim's backpack with his laptop in it was stolen from his car.

The tyrant Mengistu Haile Mariam aggravated the famine by waging a scorched-earth war against local dissidents, and then used the starvation as a pretext to resettle and collectivize the farms at gunpoint, making it even worse.

This stunt is not legal – it is not OK for police to stop you for the "gift" of receiving ice cream at gunpoint – and it exposes how insipid, insidious and infantilizing the optics of police reform are.

The 32-year-old had told American press that he had been robbed at gunpoint, but it emerged he had actually been confronted by a security guard after he had vandalised the gas station.

The only real reminders that he wasn't like every other staff member came when he was mugged at gunpoint and it became tabloid fodder, or when, early into his time in Washington, a gossip column ran an item asking where in the world he was, because he hadn't been spotted out and about.

It's practically the last terrorist group in Europe, a splinter group that demands at gunpoint the independence it cannot achieve through the ballot box – and what's more, demands it for the Basque country, one of the most privileged territories of the continent, with extremely broad political, economic and administrative autonomy.