Sentence examples for shoot a blank from inspiring English sources

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You shoot the background, you shoot a blank, and then you put a stool or something in it, and then you put the people in it.

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And, oh yes, he was also accused of shooting a blank pistol at a journalist when he failed to make the sale.

They're so afraid for their own lives they'd shoot a man, point blank, in his chest, while he's lying prone on the street.

Sufferers instead practice shooting at a blank target, sometimes for weeks at a time, to retrain the mind.

Helping him to get back to Poland in a trunk by checking it in as his own luggage, his new friend now admits he's the one who wanted to die and then recovers his will to live after being conveniently shot by a blank.

Listen: "The Kommandant knew that shooting a man point blank, when he's looking straight at you, could do some psychological damage to the shooter.

Down one of the aisles of the audience stomped a man who suddenly shot a gun (just a blank), whose report was extraordinarily loud.

In one scene, Tarzan shoots a man at point-blank range with an arrow, and the villains, led by Anthony Quayle, are pretty vicious.

Another photograph that impacted the course of history was AP photographer Eddie Adams' image from Saigon in 1968 of Saigon police chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting a Viet Cong suspect point blank in the head.

Vietnam had the monk setting himself aflame, the girl burned by napalm running naked and the Vietnamese officer shooting a Vietcong prisoner at point-blank range.

Lukic was also found guilty of executing 12 male civilians in two incidents and of shooting a woman dead at point-blank range.

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