Sentence examples for waste bullets from inspiring English sources

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A British officer once advised his superiors not to waste bullets on the Pashtun.

He added he preferred death by hanging to a firing squad because he did not want to waste bullets, and because he believed snapping the spine with a noose was more humane.

The rebels, weak in comparison, cannot afford to waste bullets or bodies against each other.

Duterte said he preferred death by hanging to a firing squad because he did not want to waste bullets, and because he believed snapping a spine with a noose was more humane.

If you don't see one until the last minute, don't waste bullets, just try and get away.

It isn't a good idea for long range unless necessary - for you waste bullets with the wrong class.

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It wastes bullets, it's dangerous, and it's impractical for Sam Fisher to have to poke his head out just to aim at a target he could very easily disable with a little bit of static electricity.

"They were very accurate and didn't waste any bullets".

They are careful not to waste their bullets, as rebel fighters in Libya often did, firing feux-de-joie into the air.What the FSA seems to lack in guns and bullets, it plainly makes up for in walkie-talkies.

Besides, he said, if Palestinians and Israelis are locked into something that can be called a miniwar, isn't this firing into the air perhaps a waste of bullets?

Kabulis spread the story that the B-52s had dropped thousands of leaflets saying, "Hit us if you can!" — and afterward the Taliban didn't waste their bullets on the B-52s.

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