Sentence examples for stop a bullet from inspiring English sources

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This would be going back to trying to stop a bullet with a bullet.

"They had some flak jackets," he recalled, "but no one wore them because they couldn't stop a bullet".

(As far as we know, Cappo never attempted to stop a bullet with a garbage-can lid).

Even the Marines' specially designed Humvees will not stop "a bullet from full-muzzle velocity," he said.

The vest would be only a little thicker than nylon, but it could stop a bullet dead.

But his main focus was on winning the war, whatever the cost – including African-American lives: "A Negro could stop a bullet as well as a white man".

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Stopping a bullet doesn't help if the bullet stops in your liver.

On its surface, a poem seems incapable of stopping a bullet.

A book has never stopped a bullet from entering a murder victim's body.

Working as President Reagan's press secretary in 1981, he stopped a bullet fired at Mr. Reagan by John Hinckley.

As on Monday, the discussion over where officers were aiming centered on a lampshade in a Liverpool Street living room that appeared to have stopped a bullet.

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