Word Finder - bullets

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A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.

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An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.

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Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.

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A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, (•), often used in lieu of numbers for marking items in a list. (see also bulleted)

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A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.

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A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.

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John's not going to any of his top schools; he got a bullet from the last of them yesterday.

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One year of prison time

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An ace (the playing card).

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Anything that is projected extremely fast.

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(in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).

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bullet chess

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A plumb or sinker.

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(particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.

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A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.

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A small ball.

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A cannonball.

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The fetlock of a horse.

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To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.

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To speed, like a bullet.

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Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.

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To make a shot, especially with great speed.

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He bulleted a header for his first score of the season.

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A young or little bull; a male calf.

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A pair of aces as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em

Bullets rained down on them.

Bullets started flying in all directions and I was hit.

She dropped to the sand as a hail of bullets whistled above her head.

His body rejected the bullets, and they popped out of his chest.

Other branches of industry are carpet-weaving, distilling, oil and oil-cake manufacture, dyeing, cooperage and the manufacture of arms and bullets.

Xander held up a hand, catching the bullets and then tossing them.

There were two refrigerators for holding blood, needles for drawing, IV tubing for transfusions and a multitude of surgical instruments for removing bullets and knife tips.

During the 140 days of his imprisonment there he wrote the marvellous Iambes (in alternate lines of 12 and 8 syllables), which hiss and stab like poisoned bullets, and which were transmitted to his family by a venal gaoler.

Arrived at the summit, Bredow sounded "line to the front," but at that moment a storm of French bullets swept down on them, and the men, no longer to be restrained, dashed forward, before the line could be completed, almost due east against long lines of infantry and artillery which they now saw for the first time about 1200 yards in front of them.

On 10th June 1840, the queen and Prince Albert Attempts on the were driving up Constitution Hill in an open carriage, queen's when Oxford fired two pistols, the bullets from which life.

One of the two bullets fired penetrated the abdomen.

The weapon hadn't been cleaned since it was last fired, but all six chambers contained bullets.

The remaining 200 victims, who had escaped the bullets of the siege and survived the butchery of the river bank, were massacred afterwards and cast down the famous well of Cawnpore, which is now marked by a memorial and surrounded by gardens.

Alloyed with copper, it is used for the envelopes of bullets.

The French infantry ran to their arms, piled along the front of their positions, and moved forward to attack, covering their advance by a hail of bullets.

Almost as the commands were given, the French suddenly opened an overwhelming long-range fire and their bullets swept like hail through the crowded mass of the German troops.

The royal carriage was struck by several revolver and rifle bullets, the horses wounded, but its occupants escaped unhurt.

The storming of their favourite positions - stockades strengthened with rifle-pits - was often costly; and a strange anti-Christian fanaticism, the Hau-Hau cult, encouraged them to face the white men's bullets and bayonets.

From 1776 to 1780 two depots for military stores and a workshop for the Continental army were maintained, and the leaden statue of George III., erected in Bowling Green, New York City, in 1770, and torn down by citizens on the 9th of July 1776, was cut up and taken to Litchfield, where, in the house (still standing) of Oliver Wolcott it was melted into bullets for the American army by Wolcott's daughter and sister.

The bridge was swept with bullets, and Comm.

Elizabeth, fearless almost to a fault in face of physical danger, constant in her confidence even after discovery of her narrow escape from the poisoned bullets of household conspirators, was cowardly even to a crime in face of subtler and more complicated peril.

E.N.E., is the 14th-century Ravanitsa monastery, with a ruined fort and an old church - their walls and frescoes pitted by Turkish bullets.

The same afternoon the guards in the streets and on the ramparts were doubled; on the following morning the gates of the city were closed, powder and bullets were distributed among the city train-bands, who were bidden to be in readiness when the alarm bell called them, and cavalry was massed on the environs of the city.

Thus the declaration of Paris, 1856 (to which, however, the United States, Venezuela and Bolivia have not yet formally acceded), prohibits the use of privateers and protects the commerce of neutrals; the Geneva conventions, 1864 and 1906, give protection to the wounded and to those in attendance upon them; the St Petersburg declaration, 1868, prohibits the employment of explosive bullets weighing less than 400 grammes; and the three Hague declarations of 1899 prohibit respectively (I) the launching of projectiles from balloons, (2) the use of projectiles for spreading harmful gases, and (3) the use of expanding bullets.

He ranged the whole field on horseback, making himself the most conspicuous target for Indian bullets, and, in spite of what he called the "dastardly behaviour" of the regular troops, saved the expedition from annihilation, and brought the remnant of his Virginians out of action in fair order.

In elephant-hunting iron bullets weighing a quarter of a pound are used; throwing-clubs are employed for small game, and lions are hunted with the spear.

Legend says that during a siege the bullets fired into the town were caught by her in the folds of her dress.

The otters are captured by spearing, clubbing, nets and bullets.

It was the bullet of a Guardian, for only carbon fiber bullets would kill the vamps in the mortal world.

She had knives and the guns with carbon fiber bullets that she used to kill vamps.

The enemy fighter will try to dodge the bullets, thus steering into the missile's path.

Just behind the tanks, straddling the trench line, came Bradleys pumping machine-gun bullets into Iraqi troops.

Doctors testified that rubber-coated steel bullets being fired from too close a range apparently caused several of the 13 deaths.

On one occasion a machine gun was also being used firing tracer bullets.

Shot and shell and rifle caliber bullets had put the entire Gamecock Fleet out of action in a few minutes.

No more killings that never end, Or snipers bullets that claim our friends.

Clear language and the liberal use of bullets keep information concise and easy to find.

Plus, those are spread bullets, so one shot can kill 5 ghouls at the same time.

According to the findings of the federal grand jury, Ninety bullets were fired inside the apartment.

Bullets firing in the midst of the night changing fate causing sorrow.

A defense lawyer was asking him why no bullets or bullet holes had been found in the room.

Wearing a singlet or stripping to the waist can make a man invulnerable to bullets.

They somehow manage to rescue Johnny but bullets rake the bedroom and the doctor is (I think) killed.

With hanging bullets With hanging punctuation the flow of text on the left hand side is uninterrupted.

The adorable puppy Fune played with the limbs, buried the brains and dug out bullets.

Quentin Tarantino uses words like bullets and writes with a propulsive energy that is compellingly readable.

The gunfights have some nice details, especially the way Rosette's bullets ricochet with a little crucifix spark.

His stone-like skin can easily shrug off high-caliber bullets.

The continuous crack and thud of bullets was quite sickening.

Refusing food and shelter, and forcing people to suffer starvation is as bad as killing people with bullets in a dictator's regime.