How to Use gunpoint in a Sentence

gunpoint

noun
  • The two were then forced at gunpoint into the car’s trunk.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
  • One by one, the paintings were snatched from the walls at gunpoint.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The suspects took some cash at gunpoint and then fled the area.
    — Fox News, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Marzolf stopped the teens and told them to lie face down on the ground at gunpoint.
    — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The same men now held Michelle and Breea at gunpoint in the living room.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • That’s the number of times they were held up at gunpoint.
    — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Then, back in the room, she was threatened at gunpoint.
    — Lauren Izso, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Pye kicked in the door and held Yarbrough at gunpoint, the court decision says.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Randolph was struck in the hand, and the two men tied him up at gunpoint and brought him to the county jail.
    — Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The woman said the man ordered her, at gunpoint, to move over in the car, and told her not to look at him.
    — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • They were forced to remove their shoes at gunpoint and shot along the banks of the Danube River.
    — Miriam Porter, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • King was ordered at gunpoint, cuffed and put in the back of a police car.
    — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Sadek said about a year and a half ago he was robbed at gunpoint by a team of three robbers.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • As Onoda held him at gunpoint, the tourist swore that the war was over.
    — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
  • That changed in 2016, when Kim was robbed at gunpoint in a Paris hotel room.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Rice holds the 16-year-old King at gunpoint while yelling commands.
    — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Bragg said that, as a child, he was held at gunpoint by police.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Yaakov sits on the floor, at gunpoint, as an intruder speaks to him.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Moïse is held at gunpoint as the room is ransacked in search of the document.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • The suspect, a 17-year-old Warrensville Heights boy, was ordered, at gunpoint, out of the van.
    — cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The car had been reported stolen at gunpoint from the city of Cleveland.
    — cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The hockey mask wearing man had ordered him to the ground at gunpoint.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2022
  • That happened when Dorit had just been robbed at gunpoint!
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
  • One by one, the Ukrainians are led out into the daylight and forced at gunpoint to lie face down.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Juan Suarez, ordered Robinson out of the car at gunpoint.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The man then picked up his 2-year-old son and held him at gunpoint, officials said.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
  • At one point, where we were held at gunpoint, saying our last prayers.
    — TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The victim tells police that two men broke into the home and woke her up at gunpoint.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Bell then forced a female co-worker to leave with him at gunpoint, police said.
    — Michael Moore Jr., Miami Herald, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Police said they were called around 7:40 a.m. and told that a woman had been forced at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend to leave with him from an apartment complex on Oro Vista Road in Nestor.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025

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