Sentence examples for pulled the pin from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Pull the pin.

If you pull the pin, you put an end to something, quit or resign.

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He then pulled the pin.

"It doesn't matter who pulled the pin; we're all done".

The fleeing man was an army major who had just pulled the pin on his grenade.

He's like a man who has pulled the pin from a grenade and is refusing to throw it.

He pulled the pin and threw it, but not quite far enough; thus the metal plate and his messed-up leg.

The Kiwis were leading, but the wind was gusting, and race officer John Craig, aided by race director Iain Murray pulled the pin.

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"He selected his weapons, he pulled the pins, he threw the grenades," Captain Cook said.

Then on that Sunday afternoon, when they were scattered like so many cats, I pulled the pins out, one by one, and placed every pin in Selma.

He had neglected to pull the pin.

Pulling the pin.> O'BRIEN What's this pin for?

Then he would pull the pin out of the grenade.

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