Sentence examples for pistol off from inspiring English sources

West, while serving in Iraq, detained and abused a likely innocent Iraqi, shooting a pistol off right next to the Iraqi's head, after West's men captured and beat the Iraqi.

After a moment's silence, the officer takes the pistol off the desk and leaves.

She said she grabbed a.25-caliber pistol off a shelf.

Also, a tip for anyone invited into a recording studio in the future: it's best to not smack your silver rings down on the table when making a point, as that will get picked up, and it sounds like someone just let a pistol off in your ear.

"I feel good, but when the pistol goes off something doesn't click," he said, wincing.

"It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect," wrote Charles Lamb, a British essayist.

Every time he was involved in an attack it was like a starter pistol went off: on your marks, get set, goal.

The defense maintains that the shooting, on May 26 , 2000 was an accident because the gun, a.25-caliber semiautomatic pistol, went off unintentionally.

Charles Lamb, a notorious punster, explained that the pun is "a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect".

On Saturday, April 5, Mr. Coca said, the head of the Mara 18, Mario Roberto Cerrato, shot him with a smuggled pistol, setting off the killing.

But under cross-examination, he could not explain why he failed to awaken the sleeping couple, nor why there was no blood on his clothing if the pistol went off as the two men were inches apart.