Sentence examples for pulling a trigger from inspiring English sources

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A deserter, what happened?" he said before pantomiming pulling a trigger and adding: "Bang".

He immediately looked to the Knicks' bench and gestured as if pulling a trigger.

And, in several instances, resource officers appear to have saved lives without ever pulling a trigger.

Two things helped: drinking — 18 to 24 cans a day of Utah's lower-alcohol beer — and pulling a trigger.

He pointed directly at a camera recording the speech and imitated pulling a trigger as he made the comments.

Pistols had made fencing lessons and a coat of arms superfluous, and anyone capable of cocking a hammer and pulling a trigger was now fit to duel.

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There is something impish, too, about playing a set of songs about war and death, then pulling a trigger-happy old song like "Big Exit" ("Gimme a pistol! Gimme the gun!") out from a hidden holster.

"How do you accidentally pull a trigger?" he asked.

("If he can pull teeth he can pull a trigger," a colleague warns).

A reflexive response can make it easy to pull a trigger accidentally, he said.

By his own account, he never afterward "pulled a trigger on any larger game".

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