| 单词 | bullet |
| 例句 | “A bullet hit him but it looks like a flesh wound.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The bullet went into the back of her head and exited through the front of her face, and blood sprayed everywhere. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z No matter what it was, whether it was the obstacle course or crawling under barbed wire while real bullets were fired over us, we Navajos were just about the best. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The bed covers and clothing were pulled aside to expose the president's back, including the dressings over his bullet wound and new incision. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The subtrans bullets through the tunnels beneath New York City, whisper quiet, its movement almost soothing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Piled-up bodies in front of you to catch the bullets, using the dead for a shield; remember the sound? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As die Dufarges came into range, he suddenly raised his face, gave a terrible laugh, and neatly, even fastidiously, regurgitated all four bullets. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Instead, it ricochets off my bat like a bullet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But many had already fallen, struck down by bullets and arrows. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z After the bullets were made and the gun was loaded, came story-telling time. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The training bullet hits the outer circle of the target and bounces off, rolling on the floor. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She probably wishes now that she’d kept her gun and bullets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The bullet struck her in the head, killing her instantly as she held their ten-month-old daughter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “They’re just picking people off, left and right. Why are they using darts instead of bullets?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A car parked in San Francisco was sprayed with bullets, killing three people inside. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As he ran to the fallen man, three bullets bit into his back. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z One night, for entertainment, the Frelimo soldiers set off flares and fired tracer bullets into the sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The point of overlap was on that Christmas Day of 1989, when Nicolae Ceaujescu learned the hard way—with a bullet to the head—that his abortion ban had much deeper implications than he knew. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And then Dad pulled down his rifle and bullets from the closet. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “You have to kill them with a bullet marked with a cross,” Lloyd added. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the doctors who had claimed that the bullet that had killed Anna Brown had disappeared. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Without looking closely, Linton could see bullet points, an explanation of some kind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Several bullets came through our old classroom window that faces the street. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The boulder was pitted and chipped with bullet marks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Once he saw the fur on Hester’s back ripple as the wind of a bullet passed over it, but she didn’t budge. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Pain runs through my healing arm, and I hear the silver bullets Tess took from my clothes clink together in my pocket. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He checked the injury himself, sticking his little finger into the opening to feel if the bullet was near the surface. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I waited for the jar and the sharp pain of a bullet, but it did not come. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The charge against Guiteau was the intentional, premeditated murder of James Garfield with a pistol and lead bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When his vision cleared, he saw why the boy had let go: He was floating with his head down, blood streaming from a bullet hole in the back of his neck. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Agnew and Hamilton knew from their years practicing military surgery that the human body often encases a bullet in a cyst, or sac, making it harmless. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It had been a while since I had practiced in my cutoff shoes, and I think the silver bullets had me spoiled. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It was Morrison, Ernest said, who had put the fatal bullet in Anna Brown’s head. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Cookie turned in horror from the fire to receive the fourth bullet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z One bullet hit a Honduran girl, seventeen or eighteen years old, in the arm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The mattress was thin, and I thought about how bullets can so easily penetrate mattresses. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps they just didn’t have bullets for us all. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She says she could see that a bullet had splintered a bone in the girl’s arm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He aimed them at the second floor of the house, at my father and mother’s bedroom, and I could see puffs of white paint and splintered wood fly off where the bullets hit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z These Latin women, even when the bullets are flying and the bombs are falling, they want to make sure you have a full stomach, your shirt is ironed, your handkerchief is fresh. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The sheriff looked the gun o’er, seent it didn’t have no bullets and that the trigger was so rusty it wouldn’t budge. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Moments later, tracer bullets started whizzing over their heads. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Her father bleeding out through bullet holes in his arms. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z As the bullets whizzed past, the boys sprang from their columns and vehicles and dove for cover. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Chase called down, and his machine guns burst to life, peppering the ground with bullet holes and startling the whole group of monsters into scattering. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Not here,” I yelled back to him, ducking as Japanese bullets whizzed over my head. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Blood trickled from the corners of his mouth, and when his huge hand moved from his chest I saw that he had been clutching the wound from the bullet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Gale, who took two bullets in an escape attempt, is mopping up Peacekeepers in 2. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It happened so suddenly that at first the agent cringed and doubled over thinking the hailstones were bullets from somebody behind or off at a slant below his exposed rear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And there are bullets in the gun and the safety is off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They had been killed by bullets or bombs, starvation or sickness—it did not matter how. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Alex had fired the last bullet, he dropped the gun, letting it clatter to the floor below, and held up the palms of his hands. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z His father, who’d owned a movie theater in Kabul, was telling Baba how, three months before, a stray bullet had struck his wife in the temple and killed her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “These are the men responsible for the bullet holes in your foot. It’s time to make sure they never shoot at you or your comrades.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The bullets echoed around the room, surprisingly loud. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He picks up the middle gun and puts a bullet into the first slot. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The planes sprayed them with machine-gun bullets, but the bullets missed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can I see you try it, Tris? I don’t think I’ve ever really seen you shoot something without a bullet wound in your shoulder.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It isn’t as clean as it was when it was the Erudite compound; now it is ravaged by war, bullet holes in the walls and the broken glass of shattered lightbulbs everywhere. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Garfield’s doctors had always believed that the bullet traveled down through his abdomen toward his groin. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The soldier takes her gun out of her holster and, with sightless eyes, fires a bullet into the back of the council member’s skull. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Next came rain, hard as little bullets on our skin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But that did not keep me from hearing gunshots as bullets entered the bodies of the strays. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Then, one at a time, he inserted two different metal probes about three inches deep into the wound, moving each around inside Garfield's body in an attempt to locate the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The fact that Garfield's doctors inserted unwashed fingers into the bullet wound proved that they had NOT followed Lister's antiseptic methods. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Produce protons in sufficient quantity, Gamow suggested, and sooner or later a lucky bullet would find its mark. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even if they slip on out owing you some money, you got to bite the bullet, give up some slack, and let them be on their way. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z War, Etienne thinks distantly, is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z People in books got killed by bullets, arrows, and wild dragons. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They could use X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs to locate the bullet, reveal the damage to his ribs and vertebrae, and show that his organs and spinal cord were uninjured. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The bullet hits the brick wall to my right, and pieces of brick spray everywhere. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But I'm ready for them—I hide behind the open fridge door as bullets ricochet off it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Like a bullet, like an explosion of gunpowder and grief and guilt and rage, Sefia launched herself across the desk. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts again. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z By inserting a bullet into the base of an extended antenna and then quickly compressing it, an inmate could fire the inaccurate but still potentially deadly gun. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the crowd marched off to make bullets and celebrate liberty and independence in the taverns, I realized dark was fast falling, and I had tarried overly long. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullet struck him in the head, on the lower left side, just below the ear. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Dodged that bullet, she thought, as Grace stuck her straw back in her mouth and continued to chew it to oblivion. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She takes a vial from her pocket and dumps the contents into her mouth— painkillers for the bullet wound in her leg, I assume. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The words struck like bullets fired close range, blasting my satisfaction to earth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and prayed the bullets wouldn’t find me, trembling as prisoners were hit and fell dead to the ground all around me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “Being stuck in a metal bullet hurtling alongside other metal bullets at eighty miles per hour is not my idea of fun.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z As this was happening, I was arriving at the Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar, where a neurosurgeon named Colonel Junaid examined me and discovered something surprising: The bullet was still inside me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When I got to the village, it was completely on fire and bullet shells covered the ground like mango leaves in the morning. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I never felt right taking people’s gifts, because they did not know that we’d loaded the bullets and put the gun in her hand. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The bullet wasn't where the doctors expected to find it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Then she ejects the magazine and fires the bullet that’s already in the chamber into the sky. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I try not to look at the bullet wound in her head, but the dim light glows on what looks like bone, and I gag. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Leap past yawning bomb craters and snarls of rusted steel, over spent bullets and shell casings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z And as I guessed, the bullets don’t hit anything. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The light is acting like little bullets that get shot into the metal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He kept only one pistol with one bullet in it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then there was a crack and a bullet whipped past. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It was better to take a bullet in your guts on an empty stomach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, they were shot with a bullet to the back of their heads so they would fall into the hole that was their grave. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “I don’t have a bullet in my head, do I?” he says, staring at his hands. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t walk, so I lay on the ground and shot into the bush where the bullets that hit me had come from. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He pointed his arms behind him like the wings of a plane and made staccato sounds like a jet on a strafing run, shooting imaginary bullets at the pilots outdrinking his comrades. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can’t use food stamps for bullets. You need money. Real dollars.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want a bullet th’ew that mole on yore chin, buster?” he yelled, waving the revolver. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My bullet wound has begun to throb, and I lean against the wall for support. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A spray of bullets had caught the car full on the driver’s side, shattering the front tire, smashing the windshield and side windows, and punching into the side panels. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They could not afford to waste their powder and bullets. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The single bullet cut a path straight down the center of the minivan, exiting out through the windshield. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The impact of the bullets had been dull, like a push from behind, but they hadn’t hurt me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The bullet had been accompanied by the sound of screeching tires, so apparently whoever had shot at us had taken off down the valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She removes the bullet and treats the injury with antiseptic. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The flying link whistled past my ear with the speed of a bullet. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Twice the bullet- riddled bodies of peasants from other haciendas were discovered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s on the ground with a bullet hole in his forehead just above his left eye. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In every house left standing, Johnny saw bullet holes and, once again, a burial party. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nina,” he said, hand still pressed over the smooth skin on his chest where a bullet wound should be. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The bullet slammed into the floor just beside Mr. Grin’s foot. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Spears and bullets sparked harmlessly off the pearl bubbles as we floated up. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The concrete walls were riddled with bullet holes and grenade blasts. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z They’re going to have to fill me with bullets to get me to stay still. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The green bullet in which Faber's voice whispered and cried, fell to the sidewalk. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of it and the bullet and the paper were rammed down the barrel. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Pent up from trailing the field, Seabiscuit spun through the gap like a bullet rifling down a barrel. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And if it was Ground-Daddy’s, I guessed it would be so big she would need both hands to hold it up and it would have a bullet the size of a hickory nut. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Soon the news will reach every city and lodge like a breath or a bullet in all the different breasts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Or the children who have been killed by bombs and bullets. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The bullet entered the body on the left side and traversed upward through the lung. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Vacant buildings, many of them pockmarked with bullet holes, lined half-deserted streets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Half of the avatars in the club swarmed toward the exit, while the other half drew weapons or began to cast spells, firing laser bolts, bullets, and fireballs back at the invading Sixers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z That day, the bullets of the Boers were too much for the assegais of the Zulu impis and the water of the nearby river ran red with their blood. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But Phillip also left a hole in my heart, like the bullet wound in the back of his head. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I wonder if he has any bullet holes in him, or other marks of grace. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I set her down and drop the bag and slip my shirt off my back, crumpling it up and holding it against the bullet hole. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “But I’m just trapped here. As soon as I can prove I didn’t know there was a bullet in that gun I’ll be ungrounded, and then we can do anything normal you want.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Momentarily the crowd stood dazed, thinking that the bullets were plastic and had been fired into the air. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know who put the bullet in your rifle?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “With bullets in your eyes. Like you want to shoot me dead. All I want you to do is help your poor mother.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why can’t you just purge it from your body like the bullets?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But I tried to take a broader view: The people who shot the bullets were part of a cycle of hate that they had been taught since they were born. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z One of the safe rollers pitched forward, and farther away, past the corner, a bullet struck an auto tire, the released air shrieking like a huge animal in agony. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And like many inmates, he has scars: three inches long on his waist below the ribs, about one inch long on his arm, penny-size circles that look like two bullet wounds on a shoulder blade. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You had satisfied yourself that with that gun you shot that bullet into her brain you had killed her, didn’t you?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I fit the last bullet into my slingshot and point it straight at her. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They fire, and a bullet hits me in the fleshy part of my arm. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Now and then, a bullet erupted in the snow and bounced off into the air. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes, imagining bullets penetrating the rafters and tearing holes in me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z If the problem had been a bullet or a blade, they might have succeeded, but the flecks and shavings of steel were too many and too small. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He gathered up the tiny shavings of lead and saved them carefully, to melt again the next time he made bullets. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The guy standing over him put a bullet in him, right there on the sidewalk. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Bliss and the original group of doctors had feared that the bullet struck Garfield's internal organs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A neat, perfectly circular bullet hole sat in the middle of his forehead, still leaking a little blood. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In the center of the trunk, three feet from the ground, was a puncture mark the size of a bullet hole, oozing green sap. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she could teach him, if not to relate, at least how to defend himself when his neighbors started shooting bullets or chucking spears. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after, Dad bought a machine to manufacture bullets from spent cartridges. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As fast as the bullets tore through her body, she healed herself, and the shells fell harmlessly to the dock. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z What did the bullets feel like going into his face? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I eased her to the ground and looked back at the cap’n; I knowed he was no good, but who could put a bullet in someone who wasn’t even holding on to a knife? The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The next moment it is knocked out of my hand by a bullet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They believed that those sennimbaris had the power to protect their wearers from being hit by enemy bullets. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One man had avoided the bullets and mortar shells but not the animals in the river. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She explained that the bullet had grazed my temple, near my left eye, and traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder, where it stopped. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He himself was left for dead, with a pistol bullet in his chest and a saber wound in his pelvis. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Hicks began shooting bullets into the chest of the recruit, firing in a calm synchronized salvo that had a violent harmony to it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked back and the road was clear and unending; there was nothing to shield him from the soldier’s bullet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A bullet hit one of the windows in the Yellow Oval Room, where I sometimes liked to sit and have tea. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z With that in mind, Dr. Lamb began the autopsy by looking for the bullet in the lower abdomen. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Havermeyer grinned and nodded and tried to explain how he dumdummed the bullets with a hunting knife before he fired them at the field mice in his tent every night. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I think bullets would pass right through her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “She said she saw them yesterday. Your scars. She said they’re bullet wounds.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry turned this way and that, staring through his Omnioculars, as the Quaffle changed hands with the speed of a bullet. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The bullets and screams outside didn’t touch his stony features, or his thoughts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And the girl sent the bullet spiraling back into the man’s chest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The commander suddenly went down, hit by a bullet. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It felt as if the Franz Ferdinandian hole in his gut had now torn, and the pain grew and grew from a bullet hole to a canyon until finally Colin himself was the hole. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “What do the bullets for a gun like that look like?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It started to become clear to Wes: the drug game was raw capitalism on overdrive with bullets, a pyramid scheme whose base was dead bodies and ruined lives. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He then covers the president with a blanket as Dr. Taft begins the process of removing the bullet from Lincoln’s head. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know where my bullet went, but I know it’s not near the target. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z There are still bullet holes in her shirt; through them I can see her wounded skin, red but no longer bleeding, like she’s frozen in time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He remembered his uncle’s car, shattered by bullets. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The disabling methods were, as always, simple—a bullet in the radiator, and the engine left running until it seized up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He heard guns firing, and bullets hummed by. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Their bullets, their little tubes of metal that fly up and down the block...that's nothing natural. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The bullet wound itself is just a round, red circle in Lynn’s skin, but surrounding it is what looks like a bruise. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He shot until the machine gun ran out of bullets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “It was much easier, and more pleasant, to understand round-faced young Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California tell how he transmuted elements with ‘deuton’ bullets.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If I didn’t have a bullet in my shoulder, I might. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It slams into the dirt on my right with the force of a slimy bullet. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Two crates of ammunition were set out, one containing loaded magazines, the other loose bullets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Too bad you didn’t just take Max up on his offer, Four. Well, too bad for you, anyway,” says Eric quietly, as he clicks the bullet into its chamber. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Wild took each unsuspecting animal behind a hummock of ice and quickly put a bullet in its brain. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “He’s not the first person to ever be hit with a bullet.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Mother gasps over a genuine Yankee bullethole in the front parlor, the bullet still lodged in the wood. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When he hits the pod, we take cover — ducking into doorways or flattening onto the pretty, light orange and pink paving stones—as a hail of bullets sweeps back and forth over our heads. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I hold my right arm against my chest as I sprint faster, the bullet wound in my shoulder throbbing with each footstep. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He saw her flinch as the bullets struck her body, saw red blooms of blood appear on her chest, her breasts, her bare thighs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Shucks, I couldn’t remember for sure if you killed a vampire by driving a stake in its heart or by shooting it with a silver bullet! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z One of the stray bullets scrapes me and searing pain shoots up my arm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z This time the kickback doesn’t startle him as much, and the bullet nicks the top of the target. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The cop wiped it off and took out the bullets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the celestial bronze bullets! How did you get those?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They were convinced that the bullet lay somewhere in the muscles of the lower abdomen near the groin. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The bullet whistled o’er my head and smacked itself into the train, shattering glass. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “Ha,” he says, this time like a single bullet. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street comer, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Up he shot again like a bullet in the barrel of a gun. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Unless you bite the bullet, you’ll shoot yourself in the foot. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The petrol was siphoned off and, for good measure, bullets were fired through the tires. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The bullet went into the mud of the embankment. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He tells me the buck run in front of him on the road and he accidentally run over it, but I saw the bullet hole myself. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The impact hurts the bullet wound in my shoulder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Marco produced a slim cigar and a silver lighter in the shape of a bullet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I’m a little nervous of the rifle swinging from her shoulder, the row of bullets hanging around her neck. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She crams her gun in a crack in the wall of the ruined house, with her belt of bullets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The cause of death was easily determined: gunshot via a single bullet through the neck. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He said Congolese boys wearing crowns of leaves around their heads were invulnerable to Belgian bullets, which passed through them and lodged in the walls behind them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember, and punch Tori hard near the bullet wound in her thigh. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Bell thought he could modify the device to find the bullet in Garfield's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As the airmen made their descent, the Germans sprayed them with bullets. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “It’s for the bullets and the gun that goes with them. A revolver. I don’t recognize the dealer.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Or are they standing between Dauntless guns and Erudite innocents, taking bullets for the sake of peace? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A bullet actually ricocheted all through the car. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She crumples next to her child, both writhing in the snow until two bullets join them in death. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “What we saw was enough for Doctor Phillips even to make the identification alone without me. It was straightforward, simple. There was no trace of what I’d done. The bullet had not touched the bone.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “There is no way it had a bullet in it.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Sharon Stone, struck by a sniper’s bullet as her car was stopped at a traffic light. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But he survived, somehow, and he even kept his arm, though it still had bullet fragments lodged inside and dangled uselessly. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But even if Howie’s death had been standard-issue, he still managed to make quite an impression on me when the bullets hit. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Johnny, trained in a silver shop to do such work, made a bullet mold. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Henry Fleming I figured when the bullets started chewing up the ground around me I'd duck and run. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The traces of their jaws had looked like tiny bullet holes, and Mo had gotten out his book block, carefully fixed the pages back together, then, as he put it, gave them a new dress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Then while he squatted on the hearth and made the bullets, they sat one on each side of him, and watched. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one, he empties the chambers of bullets. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The autopsy report claimed that the channel of pus formed as a result of infection caused by the tiny splintered bones broken off by the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A few seconds pass and still no more bullets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All over New England people were casting bullets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go to dancin’, buster!” he yelled, firing off a bullet that grazed the toe of the man’s boot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Somewhere out over the water was the bullet that would end his life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Deflected to the left by the ribs, the bullet passed through the backbone, damaging bone and cartilage. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t know how many bullets are in it, or how to check. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He yanked down on the steering wheel and twisted away as his wing mirror exploded and a spray of bullets slammed into the windshield and door. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “I don’t have a bullet in my head, do I? So I’m good.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z British ships continued to land at Staten Island, hundreds of them carrying thousands of soldiers armed with countless guns and bullets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Matter of fact, that summer, a little girl was hit by a bullet when she was sleeping. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I fire again and again and again, and none of the bullets come close. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The machine gun opened fire once more from a black rise above the motor pool, and orange tracer bullets skimmed like low-gliding dashes over the tops of the shadowy tents, almost clipping the peaks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z An incentive is a bullet, a lever, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Near the start there’s a scene where Clint Eastwood doesn't know if he has a bullet left in his gun to shoot the baddie. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Then he went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a bullet through his right temple. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Just then a bullet pinged through a pane in the living-room window, skipped across the top of his chair where his head had been not a moment before, and lodged in the far wall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he examines where the bullet hit the target. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Then when he had washed the ashtray and the glass he brought out a pistol from his pocket and put a bullet in his chest. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There were pieces of cement and splinters of wood flying in every direction, and the air was electric with the flash of gun muzzles and the sparks from the bullets. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z During that time, the bullet became encased in a layer of scar tissue. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I cut out little circles to look like bullet holes and everything.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z So a bullet pulled me back to reality. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There was also a bullet hole in his head. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He snapped his fingers, a small bullet of sound breaking against his palm. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He examined us from head to toe, and seemed pleased to find no bullet holes, shark bites, or missing limbs. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z When he located the actual path of Guiteau's bullet, the doctors were astonished. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z No natural thing could keep coming with two dozen bullets in it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Some who know the truth dine on bullets. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A bullet to the head...it goes straight through and turns into some kind of blow horn for your memories. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z If his body had harmlessly formed a cyst around the bullet, there was no reason to take the chance. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The first two bullets went in and out, and the last one stayed inside my foot. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In an instant, the bullet tore through the colorful neck. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There was a bullet hole in the doorframe and broken glasses of Star beer, a popular brand in the country, and empty cigarette packets on the verandah floor. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We had all gotten better at shooting, and our size gave us an advantage, because we could hide under the tiniest bushes and kill men who wondered where the bullets were coming from. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I won’t say I could see the bullet, but I could feel its path, the same way I felt water currents in the ocean. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Then he heard the blast and felt the bullet boring through his arm, through flesh and blood and bone, the buckshot fragmenting, some pieces going through his arm and into his chest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The sound of bullets continued to ring through the night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Glen brought the ball down and threw a bullet pass in to Jose. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z But the huge silver plane, pointy like a bullet, keeps getting bigger and bigger, keeps flying toward and through the window into me. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z The doctor stuck a crooked- looking scissors inside my wound and fished for the bullet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “A bullet’s a bullet’s a bullet!” he said. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I aimed to stick a bullet right where his wings hinged to his back. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z One bullet has crushed the Adam’s apple and sent the remains of it to the back of the throat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The captain who greeted us was wearing a flak jacket, the heavy vest that was supposed to stop bullets and shrapnel. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t optimistic enough to think he’d run out of bullets, though. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z One afternoon, while the grandmother and I are outside the hut, squatting near the well scrubbing pots and pans, I hear the unmistakable whizzing of bullets around me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Basing his hypothesis on newspaper reports of Garfield's symptoms, Dr. Frank Baker drew a diagram two days after the shooting to show where he thought the bullet penetrated. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He spun it, looking at all six bullets, then slapped it closed again. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He hadn’t a single bullet in the house. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mack was going to live, but two bullets had torn into his right ankle and just about taken his foot off. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A bullet hits the wall right behind me, putting a hole in it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Every morning I renewed his flag, and he wore it all the way west while bullets whined and whistled around us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I would be forever tied to stores for bullets, and the friendly spirit of my mountaintop would be violated. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice cut through the air like the twang of a ricocheting bullet. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Handouts are like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound, but John Tu does not give people handouts, he gives people hope. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Most rifles and muskets at the start of the war were single-shot muzzle-loaders, that is, a bullet was inserted through the front, or muzzle, of the weapon. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “While I was cleaning his room yesterday, I found the bullets and the receipt from the shop.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Two world wars ago, battlefield nurses gave cups of tea to the wounded and it leaked through their bullet holes and killed them. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the one allotted bullet per person was not always enough to kill instantly,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z As Garfield's progress slowed, and especially after his distressing relapse, the doctors began to consider removing the bullet in order to save his life. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We move together, staying in a group, to the safer wall, out of reach of bullets that might come through the window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “He wanted to meet the immortal hunter who calls himself Bouain. Now he has. If you will help him get free, he will make you immune to bullets.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He gave me an I-know-what-you-mean look and put the tractor back to work, and I happily ran down to Miss Volker’s house thinking I had really dodged a bullet. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It seemed that every building was pockmarked with bullet holes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Five days before Appomattox, at the Battle of Five Forks, he is killed by a sniper’s bullet. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just like the maglev bullet trains in Japan.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Bell held the telephone receiver to his ear, listening for the same sound he'd heard in his tests when the device detected a metal bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They pass the carcasses of old jalopies, front ends fallen through the ice, doors riddled with bullet holes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Yeah, it was real bullets, what else you gonna shoot out a gun?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled the trigger, but it wasn’t a bullet that came out at her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He, too, noticed the oddity that there was no exit wound in the front of Anna’s skull, which meant that the bullet had lodged inside her head. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z An intense pain shot through my eye like a bullet, and I let go of the string. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Six feet tall and two hundred pounds, Marshall had permission to take extra “medical” showers be-cause, he explained, he was bothered by a bullet lodged near his shoulder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, I’d get exhausted and be a nervous wreck dodging bullets from sunup to sundown. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z What no British bullet could do in the revolutionary war, the opposition press had managed to do in the political battles during his second term. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It doesn’t take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn’t see. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The crowd scatters, everyone running in terror from the threat of bullets, and I try to see who, if anyone, was shot, but the rush of bodies is too intense. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The plan was to melt down all the lead into bullets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who angered or disappointed the Soviet dictator could wind up in a Siberian prison camp—or with a bullet in the brain. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if Devon was trying to help someone like me when the bad guy with the bullet stopped him. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The soldier was shouting, “Don’t waste your bullet! I say one vandal one bullet with immediate effect!” while the little boys gathered around him, taunting him, laughing at him, singing praise names for him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z With an unmistakable bellowing roar, dragon fire burst from the exhaust, white-hot and blue, and the motorbike shot forward like a bullet with a sound of wrenching metal. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It makes the task of crossing a loaded arena, locating Snow, and putting a bullet through his head look like child’s play. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “And those cowboys and Indians. What kind of place is that for a child to grow up in? Dodging bullets and arrows?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z If you stretch out a bullet, it begins to look like a length of rope, and if you coil the rope into a loop, it becomes a ring, like Marburg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The back of my head was getting warm, as if expecting a bullet anytime. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The words begin to shoot around the cell, exploding off the walls, striking Helmuth like bullets. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z To identify the murder weapon, the lawmen needed to extract the bullet that was apparently lodged in Anna’s skull. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A bullet through my skull in the town square, if I'm fortunate enough to go that quickly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Ma was trembling something fierce, but she says, “Yes, sir, oh, thank you, sir, you’s the saint folks say you is. It was Jesus hisself what was protecting you from them bullets! Hallelujah!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z If the bullet has enough energy—if its frequency is high enough—then it knocks the electron free. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The planes were strafing and, just before Ugwu shoved the child down the bunker, a bullet flew closely past; he smelled rather than saw it, the acridness of hot metal. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “You stood there and directed him how to hold this drunken helpless Indian woman down in the bottom of that canyon while you got ready to shoot a bullet into her brain?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Her bullet strays from the target’s center, but only by inches. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z LeAlan: With a high-powered rifle, that bullet could go a thousand yards. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know,” I said, “for once I cannot argue with you. The gun, the bullets—I can’t explain any of it. So I’ll give you that much.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I bite the bullet and rip off my shirt. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The rain sounded like bullets hit* ting on the dried palm frond roof. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The machine failed to work unless the bullet was close to the skin surface. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He’s always known June was one inch from taking a bullet for him, but this? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Pass two churches and a mosque, all of which show scars of bullets and explosions. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Cover me,” she said, snapping open her carbine and shoving a bullet into it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z His face was paler than it had been the last time Alex saw it, and the pain of two bullet wounds was drawn all over it, but—impossibly—it was Herod Sayle. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Immediately all his stomach muscles involuntarily bunched in as if preparing to take a bullet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Blue-green vapor lines of Japanese tracer bullets stitched the air above our heads. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than two hours ago, Baba had volunteered to take a bullet for the honor of a woman he didn’t even know. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Some people were injured, but not so severely as to keep them from fighting; others, like myself, had received many bullet wounds that they ignored. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But we kept going, bullets pinging off the prow. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not what it used to be. It is broken down with bullet holes everywhere, but we will go there,” he answers and continues peddling. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullets could be seen sticking out just a little bit in the baby’s body and she was swelling. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The drawers I open reveal nothing remarkable: rolling papers, some loose tobacco, a few bullets. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Even though Garfield died from his bullet wound, this change did not happen until after the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Any second now, a hail of bullets would be whistling through the archway, and the last place he wanted to be was pinned down on a lower level. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The bullet finally lodged in the upper trapezius area. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z An explosion of light and smoke, and the quicksilver of the bullet splitting the distance between them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Further examination of Garfield's organs revealed that none was hit by the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Still, they believed the bullet had most likely gone downward into the pelvic region. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The rest went on firing into the building, as if the bullets coming out at them didn’t matter. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though they found no gun to match the bullet in Dray’s head, no one digs for more answers. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Iorek could see the face of his old comrade drawn and tight with the pain of his wounds, and see the jagged holes in his garments where the bullets had entered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Policemen and the National Guard retaliated with tear gas, helicopters, and bullets. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I would rather not leave it to get riddled with bullets.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “If I see a single scratch or nick on those, I’ll spell forgive me on your chest in bullet holes.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The whole time we clean, I whisper a prayer for the family of the fifteen-year-old boy with a bullet in his back lying somewhere in a morgue. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z After the bullets were made, Pa would take his gun down from the wall and clean it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Diving in low over those coconut palms on a strafing run. Well, we hit the ground, holding on to our helmets while bullets splattered all around us.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew what game this was, the same game that had consumed Tony and put a bullet or two in him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z As he raised his head a bullet had struck him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad, who had saved the shirt and belt riddled with bullet holes from the massacre, left them behind. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Their lights were on, and they came at us like bullets, it seemed—too fast to count. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just when I thought I had had enough, the doctor abruptly pulled the bullet out. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Risking life, dodging or taking bullets, and pulling triggers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Supplying arms to America meant that Redcoats would be shot by French bullets from French guns—but French soldiers would not have to pull the trigger. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z What Townshend didn't know was that the first bullet grazed Garfield's upper right arm, leaving a minor flesh wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z People began going about their daily business of searching for food, even though stray bullets were likely to kill them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The captain fell with a bullet in his heart. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The drover is on the ground with a bullet right between his eyes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We passed three people nursing their own bullet wounds beside the road. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z This time it accurately located the bullet in the man's back. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A group of men and women who had been pierced by stray bullets came running next. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Twenty-four hours to pony up the cash, or next time we meet, there’ll be a bullet hole in you.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The coins in my caged fist rattled like magic bullets. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Riddled his body with bullets”—my da talked like that. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Mark slouches down, waiting for the barrage of bullets. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But day by day, it got too dangerous to be in the open, as stray bullets had killed many people. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z There was a round part in the center, and I knew that’s where the bullets went. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He had gone for a drive with some friends, and someone had later found his body on the side of the road, a bullet in the back of his head. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Nearly every kid there that day had lost someone—a friend, relative, neighbor—to a bullet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When Oshiro came out of anesthesia, they told him he was lucky the bullet had hit the radio first. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The bullet whined off into the gulch, but she didn’t move a muscle. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He just lay there, all tensed up, waiting for a fusillade of bullets to come buzzing through his windows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A bullet struck the top of the boulder and ricocheted off. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Tito himself was lucky: the bullet had crashed into his chin and ripped through his jaw. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z On the day of Garfield's shooting, Drs. Townshend, Bliss, and Wales probed the president's bullet wound with unwashed fingers and unsterilized metal instruments. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The rain, the mad current, the bullets, the crocodiles, the welter of arms and legs, the screams, the blood.... A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Chances to escape death were better at night, because the red track of the bullets could be seen in the dark. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I caught it with one hand and when I opened my hand I saw the bullet and felt the weight of it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Thim bullets I was telling ye about, now: the brains didn’t be much good wid-out they were taken in single combat It was the virtue of them.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Another suggestion was to attach one end of a rubber tube to an air pump while sticking the other end into the wound until it reached the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I throw myself around the corner and click a bullet into the chamber of my gun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “When it’s humid and I’m running or whatever, my rib cage aches where the bullet cracked it. Other than that I’m okay.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A bullet hole appears at the edge of the target, and I raise an eyebrow at Will. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She puts an extra bullet in her pocket and stands up straighter. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z His wings arched deeply as he steered into a wind and shot like a bullet toward the sun. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ruby said gently, “Jose, they shot a bullet through your window. It could have killed somebody.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All of a sudden, I pulled out my gun, shook out all five bullets, and then let them see me put back only one bullet. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I fire again and duck as bullets hit the floor around me with a ding. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It is a different pain than any blow I’ve ever received, different even from a bullet wound. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Had he missed the can and hit a tree and the bullet ricocheted? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But he had a semiautomatic machine gun and a long belt of bullets wrapped around him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z What I enjoyed most were the “fatigue marches” in which you are equipped with only a gun, bullets, and some water, and you must reach a distant point within a certain time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He alerted all his muscles and concentrated all his energy into a single unbelievable leap that left him standing three feet away from where my bullet landed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear that bullet whizzing by my head, the old man’s cry when it passed through his arm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They each had a string of bullets worn across their chests. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “You couldn’t have known about the bullets,” she said, patting his shoulder. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z For a second, as he stared at his hand, something in his stomach squeezed in tight making him nauseous again—had the bullet hit him in the head? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The local newspaper would later report she appeared to be a “storm center” for deputies’ bullets. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “It will be a waste of bullets to shoot them,” the lieutenant said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “According to the ambulance report, you fell and hit your head pretty hard when you were shot. You were knocked out. Not from the bullet, but from the sidewalk. You have a pretty bad concussion.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The hunter had two rifles with him: one with real bullets, the other with immobilizing darts. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Bows are sustainable. Eventually we won’t be able to get more bullets, and at least I can make arrows,” he’d explained. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He was hit low in the back of the neck and the bullet had ranged upward and come out under the right eye. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z As before, the bullets ring hollow and hit nothing, but we’re not any less frightened. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Zero held the shovel out in front of him, as if he were going to try to bat away the bullets. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z When a bullet hits an electron, it gives it a nudge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Iorek struck again, twisting to one side, slashing, snarling, crushing, while bullets flew about him like wasps or flies, doing no harm at all. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A few bullet holes here and there, a catsup bottle busted up on the floor. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He found Nina tending to Wylan in a narrow cabin, her hands drifting over his arm, knitting the flesh of the bullet wound together. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Union soldiers are digging trenches and fortifications along the road and reinforcing them with fallen trees and fence rails to protect themselves from rebel bullets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The gun jerks back and up, firing the bullet near the ceiling. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She pushes the bullet chamber open and peers inside. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Without a word, he began cleaning his gun, opening it up and removing the bullets, checking the cylinder. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Now she was gone; her life snuffed by a white man’s bullet. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “How is it possible to turn windows into bullets?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bet you could catch bullets,” she said, and threw the stick away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The bullet, he announced, was nowhere to be found. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Somehow I was going to have to prove to Mom that I didn’t know there was a bullet in that Japanese sniper rifle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I suspect the bullets were meant for Edward and Edward alone—the others were just bystanders. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Each Minute Man made his own bullets, and then his cartridges, to fit his own gun. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He escorted Lee through the house, hobbling awkwardly on the wooden leg, talking about the bullet that had hit him there that afternoon while he was mounted on his horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A helicopter is not like an airplane, a smooth fast bullet. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was probably tagged with GPS but our crew fired a GPS bullet into it anyway. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Two bullets screamed off into the early morning sky. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Bright tracer bullets scored the heavens just as the song ended. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It occurred to me that maybe he was afraid I would see the bullet holes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I reach into a side pocket of my own backpack and pull out the compact cartridge of bullets. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Beatty switched the green bullet off and thrust it in his pocket. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z When the bullet hit my temple, it fractured the bone, sending splinters of bone into the lining of my brain. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It felt warm from all the firing he’d done and heavy in my hand, and I had no idea if it still had bullets or even how, in the near darkness, to check. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She could see it coming, the whole thing: the moon and the trail of smoke leading into the sky, the bullet speeding toward her, the light streaming out behind it like waves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A bullet plucked at Chamberlain’s coat, a hard pluck so that he thought he had caught a thorn but looked down and saw the huge gash. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Garfield's bullet wound had been contaminated with bacteria by his own doctors, starting with the first examination on the dirty floor of the railroad depot. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The soldier in command gave an order, and the guard who’d been holding Julie down took aim at the younger of the captive men and with one bullet maimed him low between his legs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z If something happened and there was an exchange of gunfire, the women and children would be hit by bullets. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Garfield’s medical team heard of another way to locate the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Were the bullets and roses bullets and roses? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But, has any one of you faced a Confederate bullet? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Bodies once alive, then lifeless, seemed to live again as the bullets tore into the dead flesh and made it dance in the afternoon sun. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They saw the blue light of tracer bullets as the German night fighter fired at the trapped plane—missed—and fired again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At the time, I wondered vaguely where the bullet landed. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He took the bullets out, bits of brass and lead that winked in his palm, then had me put them back in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He snorted, even as another bullet pinged against Black Betty’s metal skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Both Franklin and the French officials knew that many of the American soldiers who won the battle had fired French bullets from French guns. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullet hits the woman in the stomach and she screams, firing blindly into the night. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Still, there’s not much that can be done if a bullet rips right through the center of one. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Heart pounding, I lifted my hands to shield myself, as if that would stop a speeding bullet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The Shoun brothers, who had performed the first autopsy, appeared at the cemetery and renewed their search for the bullet. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I don’t even know where the bullet hit me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Betita, who had never been sick a day in her life, died in 1963, on November 22, on the same day as President Kennedy, but not from a bullet in the head. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some physicians said there was nothing inevitable about Garfield's death from the bullet wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The bullets have torn into Baxter’s chest, spraying red mist everywhere and knocking him onto his back with a hard thud. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z At that moment, I would give anything for a painkiller, or ice to put out the fire in my injured thigh, or even another bullet to put me out of my misery. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z We took refuge in a nearby nurses’ dormitory, where we heard bullets smashing into the wall of the building. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Named 1991 BA, it was noticed as it sailed past us at a distance of 106,000 miles–in cosmic terms the equivalent of a bullet passing through one’s sleeve without touching the arm. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One man said to Israel Thomas, “How do I know it wasn’t Bill Creighton’s bullet that shattered my boy’s leg at Pea Ridge?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullet struck the wall as they slammed the gate. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “During a field exercise,” he remembered, “I stumbled with a loaded pistol in my hand, and put a bullet through the sole of my foot.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The buildings are charred from fires and their walls riddled with bullet holes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, it’s obvious he drowned. There are no other signs of trauma, no bullets, nothing. See?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t want any bullets flying around my bar.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice was silenced by the bullet that had quickly passed through his neck and spinal column. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you ever taken a bullet out of someone before?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The bullets flew like sparks, and the flares went right up into the stars. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear the bullets make splashing noises in the water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were old enough to remember when rags became felt for the war effort, when cans and scrap metal could become bullets and cans of grease explosives. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I summarize a bullet point from the handout at school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones’s gun. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z From what he'd been told, the doctors believed the bullet was in the president's front abdomen. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Go to the Denver Museum, you can see his ghost shirt hanging there. You can even count the holes in it from the bullets that killed him.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z James Garfield was dead, eighty days after Charles Guiteau's bullet pierced his back. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He surfaced like a bullet, iridescent, grinning, splashing water. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I could’ve just loaded some bullets into my gun and shot him dead and been done with it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Xanax time, two bullets tonight, with Mom's blessing. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “But what if we get down to the last bullet, the last C ration, the last chance, what is going to happen?” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “When the bullets come out of the rifle, they travel in a straight line. Many soldiers say they can escape the bullets by running in a zigzag.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I was reluctant, but she said she would be able to treat me effectively only if I told her what had happened, especially about how my bullet wounds were treated. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But if tests showed that the bullet could be extracted without damaging nerves or organs, Garfield might undergo surgery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But if they could find their way to the dogs with guns and bullets, wouldn’t it be just as easy to feed them? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Jesper hissed as a bullet whizzed by his cheek, close enough to leave a burn. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The doctors probed Lincoln’s bullet wound with their bare, dirty fingers, sticking their pinkies inside Lincoln’s brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z What if the bullets came down on their heads? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Why didn't my mom bite the bullet and enter into a fake marriage to get us green cards faster? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Hands yanked him down in time, the bullet skidding off the rock and into the gravel with a sharp hiss. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They hoped to determine the path that the bullet had taken, which would hint at the internal damage it might have caused. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Tell me, Henry, if I put one of these bullets right into your head and got your brains all over Kelton and his MoonPie, would I be a noun or a verb?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But hiding on high was no defense against bullets; the orphans all around me were proof of that. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She ran for her life with the bullets whizzing over her head. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly two weeks later, a laborer who had been in the station discovered that the bullet had penetrated his work kit and fallen inside it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Many of the soldiers were falling, hit by bullets and arrows. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Standing next to the president's bed, Tainter moved the detector above the right side of Garfield's abdomen, where his doctors believed the bullet had ended up. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Just don’t get any bullet holes in it or anything,” Scout says as I start warming up with a kid named Stanford. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing out there! We have no bullets to waste!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Speaking above the deadly whirr of shrapnel, the snap of Japanese rifles, and the ping of bullets bouncing off our radio equipment. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He hadn't pinpointed the bullet with enough accuracy for the surgeons to remove it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “No. I warn you. I will shoot. The suit will stop radiation, but it won’t stop bullets.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The bullets rain over, they are not fired haphazard, but shrewdly aimed from all sides. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t have enough bullets in my gun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Tori and Harrison come to the lobby after a while, Tori limping toward a chair—I almost forgot about her bullet wound again; she was so nimble when she killed , Jeanine—and Harrison following her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A single bullet is surprisingly heavy: hauling around two hundred is like carrying a small child on one’s back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The third bullet was for the filthy flamingo, who stopped dead center in the road when the lethal bee buzzed past his ear. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They used the Nelaton probe to find the bullet for possible removal, as if that would have helped Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of their mouths and eyes were open in shapes that showed how much they had cringed as they waited for the bullets from behind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The Pe-2’s machine guns often jammed, and their bullets weren’t always strong enough to penetrate the armor of Luftwaffe fighter aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Ma's sharp, quick elbow hits my side like a bullet. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The crack of the next bullet sent the shooter’s lifeless body sliding out of the passenger window of the truck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As he plunged his heavy body into the shallows, Mwase crept behind him and put a bullet into his skull. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He lifts his head, and I click the bullet into its chamber, raising an eyebrow at him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Tad’s eyes opened wide as the bullet bit into him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z July Fourth festivities on Monday were subdued as Americans waited to learn whether their president had survived the assassin's bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Blood poured out of the bullet holes in him like water rushing through newly opened tributaries. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Thousands of flying avatars and ships continued to buzz around the shield, occasionally firing bullets, lasers, missiles, and other projectiles at it, all of which impacted harmlessly on the surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I don’t remember when I actually pulled the trigger; all I remember is shooting and waiting until I was sure the other guy was out of bullets. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t wait to see if the bullet hits him—I aim at each featureless man in turn, as fast as I can. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Beetles skittered like bullets on the surface, or carried a silver bubble of air with them to the bottom. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The other bullet went through the back of her head, entering below the skull at the top of her neck. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The phrase volley of abuse, for example, uses the image of a fusillade of bullets to describe an outpouring of anger. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Another asserted that the bullet was inside Garfield's liver, where it would kill him either by infection or bleeding. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Maybe I could use the last bullet I had in my gun to just go away. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Anyway, Gale and I agree that if we have to choose between dying of hunger and a bullet in the head, the bullet would be much quicker. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “This is for bullets, not bets. Wylan, make sure his feet don’t mysteriously find their way into a gambling den on his way to buy ammunition, understood?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I clasp my hands over my ears as more bullets ring in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the men carried a giant roll of bullets, like you’d see in action movies. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Kaz, if you want me dead, I prefer a bullet to poison.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In front of me, a man falls from a bullet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And wherever did the cat come from? He was waiting by the front door when I came in. Shot out like a bullet as I opened it.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z White, already suspicious of the Shouns owing to the missing bullet in the Anna Brown case, began to question each person who had been in the room with Bill. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On the evening of April 4, 1968, as he stood on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, waiting to go to dinner, he was killed by a single bullet from a high-powered hunting rifle. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullet had driven pieces of Garfield's clothing into his body when he was shot. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We ran forward, desperately searching for something to get behind as the bullets whined about us, kicking up dirt and snapping branches. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I would hurry across the few feet of illuminated lawn — the searchlights were back on again, expecting at any moment to feel the bullets rip through me even in advance of their sound. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullets went into her belly, and she crumpled. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I lose track of which one holds the bullet. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I had my bayonet on my left hip and some magazines and loose bullets in my side pack. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry,” Mundín says, “I don’t think a bullet can get through that coffin!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z After exiting a vertebra, the bullet came to rest in fatty tissue behind the pancreas, about two and one-half inches to the left of the backbone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Lee’s attention was drawn to this speckled fawn-colored chunk of wood by the bullet holes in it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They were up in the mango, orange, and guava trees, ready to rain bullets down on us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “I got the top bunk, CO”—the newest guys always did—“but I still got a bullet in my knee and I can’t really get up there.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of bullets, dogs skid around the comer of the house and descend on me—a whole new set of scrawny, half-starved dogs, barking and growling. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In further tests, Bell and Tainter were able to detect a lead bullet up to five inches away from the coils. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I keep my hands light, fingers to my gun—but I’m not about to waste a bullet unless I absolutely have to. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We could see the black bullet which was our mother’s helmet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s a case of either I do the job or the rest of the bullets wind up inside me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The district attorney presented Garfield's damaged vertebrae, and Bliss pointed out where the bullet penetrated the backbone. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “When a horse pulls up lame, you don’t waste a bullet on him.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When they landed, they discovered that their plane was so full of bullet holes that they couldn’t fly another mission that night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Irina Rakobolskaya, the deputy commander for the 46th Guards, said that “a single incendiary bullet could turn it into a flaming torch.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The first bullet hit the black soldier in the heart. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Four days later a second young black woman, named Rosa Jordan, was shot in both legs while riding the Boylston bus by a sniper whose bullets penetrated the vehicle. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The men tested the metal detector on three former Civil War soldiers who each had a bullet in a known location of the body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “That's because you've never met my momma. She used to say the only thing more lethal than a bullet was a woman with a pretty face.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Tad put his hand on his abdomen where they’d removed the bullet. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Mother did not seem to be mad at the soldiers who were shooting real bullets. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Like angry hornets are zipping past my ears instead of bullets. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “All the air raids we have had, we went there, and nothing happened to us. We don’t need a bunker. Banana trees absorb bullets and bombs.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The heat radiated outward from where the bullet went in just below my left shoulder blade. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t shoot real bullets,” I say, “but it seems like they designed it so it would be as close as possible to one of the guns you’ll be using. It feels real, anyway.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Carl never saw it coming, either, and when the hapless bird banged head-on into his ear he gave a startled yelp, tumbling over sideways as if struck by a bullet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To see Manny laid out all serene after knowing there was a bullet somewhere in his head? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The doctors didn’t remove the bullet, deeming it unsafe, so it remained lodged in Roosevelt’s fourth rib, just an inch away from his right lung. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The doctors examined Lincoln’s body for knife or gunshot wounds but found nothing other than the bullet hole in his head. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw Lupito lifted off his feet and hurled backward by the bullets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as the bullet wasn't causing problems, they didn't want to create new complications by performing a dangerous operation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They had been patched—that is, new plastic had been welded over them so that they were airtight—but from the inside you could see that they were bullet holes, round and quite large. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He imagined his own body ripped by bullets like the bird’s, and he sobbed harder. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Every group had stories of terrible peril: boys who had been hurt or killed by bullets or bombs, attacked by wild animals, or left behind because they were too weak or sick to keep up. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt absolutely certain I was about to be shot, and for a moment I thought the splashes of our feet in the water were bullets raining down on us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Buford saw his staff people duck, but be did not hear the bullet. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Tobias puts the bullet into an empty chamber without looking up. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I guess from that bullet that found him. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z With a pair of loud cracks he volleyed two more bullets over our heads, just to drive his point home. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It’s an expense, but maybe they think the price of appearing to be benevolent rulers instead of tyrants has a cost benefit—it’s cheaper than bullets and burying bodies. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I only got a small wound from that bullet. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Blood spilled from the bullet wound in his upper thigh, and a knife jutted from the right side of his chest. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z My bullet bill this month was going to be huge. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My fingers came up to trace one of the fresh punctures on the side paneling where a bullet had slammed through the thin metal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I couldn’t shake the image of the upstairs corner window, pierced with a bullet hole and covered in blood. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His violin shoots out a black bullet straight into Harp’s forehead and the bullet keeps flying straight into Gully’s forehead, right behind Harp! The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Hubbard was pummeling his ribs now, and Alfred worked his left arm free and began banging at the side of the bullet head, again and again and again, until Hubbard straightened up. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Even his belt strap had bullet holes, but no bullets had brought him down. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Some fell as bullets fired from the far shore tore into their bodies. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite all that confusion, the noise of hostile fire, the sound of men crying out as they were hit by shrapnel and bullets, we kept pushing forward. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m stealing some of the bullet points from my scholarship essay, but I feel like they work here.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The finished bullets he put into his bullet pouch. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean you really shoot ’em with real bullets and then you really eat ’em?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He only lights his cigarette and, two seconds later, a bullet rips through the front of his skull and he crumples in a heap. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The first was that the bullet entered Ray’s shoulder and went straight through. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Hundreds of people unconscious on the floor, shot with something other than bullets, and I have no idea why. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Lloyd: How far do you think a bullet could go from right here? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was senseless to want to be near a person so badly here in a country where bullets had shredded her own brothers to pieces. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Nervously, Bernabe punched out the spent shells, reloaded from bullets he held in his gun belt, aimed carefully at the cripple, and fired. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This decision was not made any easier by the lingering agony buzzing around its shaggy head, or the cluster of bullets lodged in the fatty chest tissue. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “You don’t waste a bullet on a horse.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The black powder charge exploded and spit the bullet toward Lincoln’s head. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullet was too hot to touch, but it shone so temptingly that sometimes Laura or Mary could not help touching it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The men were tied to poles, and their bodies kept shuddering even after the bullets were no longer being pumped into them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It would go perfect with the silver bullets. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The Bull knew how to close distances faster than a speeding bullet. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z All of them falling—they must be dead, or dying—as the earsplitting bang of bullets filling my ears. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Then, with her Yak full of bullet holes, Lilya flew back to her own airfield and managed to land. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Earlier in the day, the doctors had been reluctant to probe the wound again to learn the bullet's path. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The bullets hit them both in the head, and they slump to the floor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z In a blaze of smoke and bullets, Safaa’s bag bursts into a million shreds of carpet and torn clothing and scraps of cloth. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Before I could walk away, he shot the ball toward me, a chest pass like a bullet. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It leaned badly and was pocked with bullet holes peppering its surface. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z A rusty stop sign riddled with bullet holes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It was a Spanish remake, I think—a comedy-gangster movie, full of hit men, bullets, and a suitcase full of stolen Swiss francs. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I walk away from Judd’s trailer in a sort of zigzag line, half expecting a bullet in my back any moment, even though I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z During nearly three hours of surgery, doctors treated his lung injury, removed the bullet, and controlled his bleeding. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Lee sits astride his horse, painfully vulnerable to a sniper’s bullet despite his flag of truce. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z A bullet lodged in his spinal column reduced him to his bed for the rest of his life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Millard had been grazed by a bullet during our melee at the lighthouse the previous night, and though his recovery so far was remarkable, it was far from complete. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was loaded with bullets the size of robins’ eggs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Another, wearing a string of bullets over a bare chest, paced nearby. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Are those tanks going to shoot bullets at us, like in a real war? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But when she held his hand, she could feel a bullet lodged beneath the skin. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I liked being alone with poor Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, who—oh, come on, he’s not going to survive these seventeen bullet wounds, is he? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z But when two galaxies collide, the stars pass effortlessly by one another, like bullets through a swarm of bees, because a galaxy is made mostly of nothing and the spaces between the stars are vast. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother jumped in front of the gun to protect everyone, and that’s when she took the first bullet, not in her leg but in her butt cheek. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “You don’t know the meaning of the word ‘liberating’ until you’ve done that, stood in a roomful of targets, let the bullets fly, free of guilt and remorse, knowing you are virtuous, good, and decent. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I don’t even flinch when I put the bullet in his head. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z One offers outlawed guns and bullets, promising overnight delivery for cases of thirty and up. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Tall, bullet scarred, small-eyed, and jittery, he seemed to be wasting away from within—hence his nickname, Slim. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z An ammunition belt with bullets is slung around her body. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It would be so quiet, the only sound the fizzling of the flares, and then you’d hear the whistle of a sniper’s bullet streak out of the darkness and bury itself in the mud. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Going to shoot me like that dog I found up here six months back with a bullet in his head?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Because all the surgeons had testified that the bullet wound was mortal, Cox said, doctor malpractice was not an issue in determining the defendant's guilt. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The sun showed flashes of the tips of guns and bullets traveling toward us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The sound of his bullets bouncing off the door was deafening—but somehow reassuring—but after about a dozen shots he stopped. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Or did he believe it more heroic, more honorable—even more gentlemanly—to take his prey with a single bullet? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shame to die with one bullet left, though.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My arm throbs like a second heartbeat from the bullet graze. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And so when the authorities caught up with Boxcar and the other escapees, Boxcar shot his two companions, then put a bullet in his own forehead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The sting of the catapult bullet had worn off. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Katya died like a true Soviet fighter pilot, first filling an enemy fighter with bullets before using expert flight techniques to put out the flames that were engulfing her own plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I saw the bullet wound in his chest every morning when he got out of the shower, like a tiny crater or a third nipple, a symbol of near death. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Lamb produced the bullet, removed from the body during the autopsy, and it was shown to the jury. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Wild ran for his rifle and brought the seal down with one bullet, and when the eleven-foot-long animal was butchered, the men discovered fifty undigested fish inside its stomach. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps he didn’t want to waste a precious bullet on a little girl. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If I had been on the street that day, with bullets flying toward me, he would have stepped into their path. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “To answer stones and bad language with a random volley of .30-caliber bullets was not imaginable in America,” he later reflected. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When David Shoun was questioned, he conceded that there was no exit wound, but he insisted that he and his brother had “made a diligent search” for the bullet. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Our plane, a giant silver bullet with wings awaits us at the gate. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A bullet whizzes past my head, so close to hitting me that it moves my hair. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z His car has bullet holes from a drive-by shooting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They were talking every day now, ever since the bullet, ever since the new hole in the gate. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Pap waited a second, then fired the next three bullets fast-fast. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “Well, did you ever have to dodge bullets?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He grabs my shoulders—too hard, his fingers digging into my skin where the bullet was. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Another wave of bullets slices across the chest of her yellow coat, staining it with red, knocking the girl onto her back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Kaira followed that with the fast-paced “Frying Pan,” during which the words seemed to just shoot out of her mouth like bullets. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The gunmen who sport $200 haircuts and Italian suits take bullets to the head. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For a neighbor to have recognized a face among them might well have been sufficient reason for getting a bullet between the eyes; these men meant to take no chances with an informer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He had holes in the collar of his shirt from bullets. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was about a couple thousand bullet holes all over the room. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead he drags me to the police station, kicking me and spitting out bad words like bullets, probably angry that I have nothing he can steal. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Even if I told the animal' rights people that I found a dog with a bullet hole in its head up near Judd’s house, don’t prove that Judd was the one who killed it. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z That madman Jose Mondragon was going to gun them down in cold blood because they didn’t have a single bullet in the house. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Next moment, thirty or forty letters came pelting out of the fireplace like bullets. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Turn around and go back where you came from,” she said fearlessly, as if bullets would bounce off her. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I know whose bullet that was, Judd, and I told Dad, and if folks find me up here with a bullet in me, Dad’ll know whose bullet that is, too.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the shelter workers tell of migrants hit by bullets. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Two wet eyes and that third eye of the bullet hole never blinking. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I had been focusing on the horrid few seconds when the bullets took her life, but she had lived six years before that. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Alex guessed that the two bullets must have hit him in the left arm and shoulder. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Where did the bullets hit?” the sheriff asked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z What I would do up there is send in the troops and let some bullets fly, to teach them once and for all. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A New York medical school professor performed an experiment to track the bullet's probable path. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We had no choice but to follow—she was carrying our protection, after all—and a moment later bullets were clanging against the door and chipping at the rocks around our feet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I realized with amazement that somehow Dr. Chase must’ve gotten hold of celestial bronze to fashion his bullets. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He visualized each piece of his own skull, fingering each curve, each hollow, testing its thickness for a final thin membrane worn thin by time and the witchery of dead ash and mushroomed bullets. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The nova of 1572 was not the cause of the Scientific Revolution, any more than the bullet which killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 was the cause of the First World War. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The mushy bullet splashed on his back, leaving a reddish, purplish wound the size of a baseball. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Later that afternoon, someone fired a bullet through a second-story window. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It has three rings in three different colors, green, yellow, and red, so it’s easier to tell where the bullets hit. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In a fierce battle during the French and Indian War, four bullets riddle Washington’s uniform—but do not strike his body. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The surgeons already knew what had killed him—a single bullet through the brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z No German patrols come banging up the stairs to put bullets in their heads. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I swear I felt the bullet fly right by my eyes and I fell. I’m not hurt.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He rode back and forth along the line, watched Devin’s men digging in, heard bullets clip leaves above him as snipers crawled closer. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If I fought, that dog would have surely put a bullet in me, and gladly! The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The prisoner who had fought back crumpled to the ground, dead from a bullet to the brain, and the assaulted officer was hurried away from the assembly grounds. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z We are a volley of bullets, sing the newest cadets, we are cannonballs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was no sign of the bullet, but one of the lawmen noticed a bottle on the ground, which was partially filled with a clear liquid. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It also doesn’t help that whoever’s setting all this up gives me just the one bullet. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “In the leg. My luck held, though; bullet went in and out fair clean. Didn’t break the bone.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Weighed down with guns and bullets, the women have their hair scraped back under headscarves or baseball caps; the men are mostly clean-shaven. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It launches a single large .44-caliber ball instead of a bullet and is accurate only at close range. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Even when enemy bullets grazed Roosevelt’s elbow and another knocked off his glasses, nothing slowed him down. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It tore through my suit like a bullet through butter, and I felt the worst pain of my life as it ripped open my side. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Another bullet went through the backseat of the car and grazed my friend in the back. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The Bull took off like a bullet; Virgil pushed himself up and ran after him, saying, “No! No! No!” in the loudest voice he could manage without choking. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Initially, the surgeons hadn't wanted to operate on Garfield to search for the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A meter to Katz’s right, a pipe shuddered as the bullet ricocheted off it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Lee fumbled in his pocket and found some more bullets. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Early researchers used them in the field of ballistics to, say, measure the pace and trajectory of a bullet. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A bullet whined into Oshiro’s radio, ricocheted off, and plunged into his neck. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z After Roan turned up with a bullet in the back of his head, in 1923, Hale had the most obvious motive. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Reluctantly, he hands me the magazine of bullets—and although I don’t want it in my pocket, I’d rather it be there than in his. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The mysterious third person, who is circumstantially presumed to be in charge, allegedly instructed McMillian to 'get rid of Myers,' which Mr. McMillian said he couldn't do because he was out of bullets. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Then when he got her just in the position you wanted him to have her, then you shot a bullet from this .380 automatic?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I decided to try melting some down to make bullet casings,” he continued. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Zeitoun thought a man had been killed until he saw that the gun was shooting not bullets but beanbags. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A laser burst of bullets splattered blood all over the dungeonlike floor. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Conkers for bullets, crab apples and windfallen pears for heavy artillery. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Guiteau’s bullet traveled into the left side of Garfield's body, not down the right as his doctors thought. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The bullet went in her shoulder, this way.’ Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In my backpack I had more magazines and loose bullets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Others believed that the artery had been damaged by the overwhelming infection, not the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He fires—the same moment a bullet smacks into him, they have got him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing hurt this much, not even the bullets searing my back. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z One idea involved turning the president upside down for several hours and allowing gravity to pull the bullet toward the entry hole, where it could be easily lifted out. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Tobias fires over and over again, until his gun runs out of bullets, and the trigger makes a clicking sound instead. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I ’membered everything Pap tolt me ’bout shooting and looked in the pistol’s cylinders to check the bullets. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z He was walking down the corridor, waiting for the bullet. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Then Small Boy took aim and put a bullet just under the left foreleg and the bobcat dropped through the branches into the jaws of Becky and her companions. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “But how can you prove you didn’t put a bullet in the gun?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Mom doesn’t use the internet down here,” Finn said, spitting out each word like a bullet. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Then three other soldiers ran to the window, and while Bronwyn cried “Please, don’t kill him!” they raked the field with bullets, filling our ears with the thunder of their guns. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He waited a minute, then he opened the mold, and out dropped a bright new bullet onto the hearth. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the rattling sounds of the rifles go off and bullets pierce through their bodies, silencing their screams. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Long Knives still have lots of bullets,” Black Moon said. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z How could that bullet have gotten into the chamber? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Artillery shells and bullets strike any man who dares to stand still. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The discovery returned Lawrence to a round-the-clock schedule at the Rad Lab, supervising the bombardment of dozens of elements with his magic bullet. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Or they thought of their son newly killed and remembered his legs in short pants and wondered where the bullet went in. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z That meant he could save his five remaining bullets for serious security threats, though he didn’t want a repeat of the nerve- rattling fiasco with the field mouse. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Spastically, dropping a half-dozen bullets, he reloaded the gun, placing it on the log beside him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Ain't but six bullets in that thing," a little fellow called. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A peculiar slumped in a corner beneath a slash of bullet holes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It cracked with a sound like a bullet in the silence: The surface of the pool broke and chunks of dark ice rocked on the ruffled water. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I put in the remaining box of bullets, the binoculars, and a little packet of dried berries and mushrooms I had picked. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It seemed as if bullets were falling into the forest from all angles. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Doubt those bullets were meant for her, but bullets go where they wanna go. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The tall corporal spun around from the impact of the bullets and came flying forward. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The bullet barely grazed the side of his head. He will be fully conscious soon. We must hurry.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The watch officer gunned them down himself, riddling their bodies with bullets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Four of Dufarge’s bullets struck the Laughing Man, two of them through the heart. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The first bullet was close enough to nick his ear as it whistled by. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Green buds on the tree branches were rolled up like bullets, and I ran my fingers over them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He pulled the green bullet from his ear and jammed it into his pocket. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z White examined the skull and could see the hole in the back where the bullet had entered. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She holds up a clear plastic bag with three silver bullets inside. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A bullet struck his leg, but he rode on, leading the final assault that shattered the British fortifications. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The riot police shot rubber bullets, hurled tear gas, beat people with batons. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The satisfaction in his voice makes me long to put a bullet in him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z None of the bullets even hit the classroom windows, let alone penetrate the room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He would shoot when they were closer and he would save one bullet for himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the county prosecutor decided to look again for the bullet that had eluded investigators during Anna’s autopsy. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was the first of three times that he would feel the searing heat of a bullet enter his body. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They saw the flash and heard the sharp rattle of the aircraft’s machine guns in the dark, and bullets raked the wings of their Po-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Most have guns with bullets to just snuff them lifeless. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z As we drew the skin down over the rib cage it exposed the bullet, or what remained of the bullet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Rather than being killed by a blade or a bullet, he was hanged from a dead palm tree, where his body twisted in the desert wind. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw the soldier between us, writhing on the ground, a bullet torn through the shoulder of his coat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Compromise,” Kaz said, “I’m sorry does the trick and uses fewer bullets.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The rain came down in bullets, but it didn’t quench the flames. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Shells were falling on the ridge nearby and bullets were slicing leaves, but Reynolds sat astride the horse in a motionless calm, looking out toward the fight, picture of a soldier, painted against the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Around them, shells of all different sizes exploded, flaming and colorful tracer bullets whizzed past, and antiaircraft guns fired from the ground and from ships stationed on the sea below. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I heard the impact of the bullets in the ground in front of Captain Stewart’s feet, I saw him leap backward. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Dad thinks I put the bullet in the gun. It’s not fair and now my whole summer has been ruined.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He escaped from his Soviet handlers, always fearful that he might end up dead by an assassin's bullet. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you’ve got a Category Five period. I’ve had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z If you tried to shoot the monkey, you’d be firing into the cages, and the bullet could hit a cage or a wall and might ricochet inside the room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the temples in this area, Khouy says the soldiers mutilated its animal guards, and either knocked or shot off the stone heads of the gods, riddling the sacred bodies with bullets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In another moment, a .36-caliber bullet would explode in his face, and the hot black powder would, at such close range, not only kill him instantly but also burn his flesh a hideous black. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullet missed his heart by barely an inch, but it punctured a lung. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The night at the hospital flashes through my thoughts—my disguise, Metias watching me as I entered the hospital, the young doctor I'd held hostage, the bullets bouncing off the refrigerators. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Then my brother went into surgery for six hours so they could remove the bullets. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He was firing wildly now, a line of bullets tock- ing into the gun, hot casings popping out the other side. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He fired again, and that bullet had far better luck; it slammed into Black Betty’s bumper. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Because no vital body parts had been damaged and the bullet was lying harmlessly in fatty tissue, it wouldn't necessarily have to be removed. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A man can stop a bullet and be killed; he can get wounded, and then the hospital is his next stop. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z These weren’t typical hunters; the strings of bullets told me they were combatants, probably hungry and unpaid and setting traps for extra food. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I thought I could be dying from a bullet wound and Joan would still stare through me with her blank eyes, expecting me to ask for a cup of coffee and a sandwich. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Had one of those bullets hit me, that could’ve been my little brother crying like that. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Drops of moisture rose from the grass beside her, gleaming like pearls as she transformed them into bullets of ice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “A half- empty box of bullets. I don’t like that, Mole.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He could almost imagine the hail of bullets tearing into him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Every evening before he began to tell stories, Pa made the bullets for his next day’s hunting. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Or was it the sound of the bullet exploding from the chamber—delayed? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z After more weeks of trial and error and testing and retesting, they succeeded in locating a bullet lost in a different man's body for years. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “It was a .22 caliber bullet,” I said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Animals who speak Latin? Preposterous. Careful, Maytag, there may be bullets in there.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Then they would put a bullet in his brain. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the doctors could extend a flexible probe twelve inches from the bullet hole down the pus channel. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The forlorn-looking young man showed me the bullet hole near the patella; there was no exit scar. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I just wanted to learn more about what the bullet had done. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “And all I want is for Four to be the one who fires that bullet.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He removed small pieces of bone from the wound, likely splintered off the rib when the bullet slammed into Garfield's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z With two bullets to the head I don’t suppose he could have done much else. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z "I hope," Leroy said, "you did exactly what I think. And that there are still six bullets in that gun." The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “I bet Uncle Will was the one who left the bullet in the gun the night I pulled the trigger,” I said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He pushed the minivan up into a faster speed, causing the wind to whistle through the bullet hole. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z At that age, Nicholas’s conversations were about running from bullets. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Well, Corporal, you tell your commander that the next time I see armed forces coming in here, they’ll be picked off by sniper fire. No darts either. Armor-piercing bullets.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They spurted hundreds of scattered bullets before dark balls rolled out from underneath, as if the planes were laying large eggs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And I didn’t hear the crack, crack, crack of the three bullets. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z With each word she spoke, flecks of pale-blue phlegm shot from her mouth like little bullets. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Walking to within fifteen yards of a pregnant cow, Joe bolted a bullet into the chamber. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked down on the women who had grown accustomed to bullet holes over their dinette tables, who watched All My Children and ate Doritos all day and didn’t seem to want anything better. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Any farther back, and I would end up one of the frozen Jews on the roadside with a bullet in my head. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Bottom: An X-ray showing the bullet lodged in Roosevelt’s chest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The distance doesn’t trouble me—the bullet will travel straight, just like it would if I was closer. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “One generous habit of a volley: You never know if it was your bullet or some other body’s did the deed.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I don’t wait to see if the bullet hits her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They thought that the bullets would silence us. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As the two surgeons examined him, they found a sac full of pus under his skin three inches below the bullet hole. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z One youth saw a thirteen-year-old go down, a bullet having shattered his forehead. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah, and inventors of the life raft, the bullet proof vest, and residential solar heating? Women,” I say. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Mathis, the Big Hill Trading Company owner and the guardian of Anna Brown and her mother, was a member of the inquest into Brown’s murder that failed to turn up the bullet. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Several years later, Dr. Reyburn wrote that the surgeons were wrong about the bullet's path, but “no different course of treatment could have saved his life.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The bullet went through Baigre's cheek, shattering several teeth and severely damaging her jaw. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Gachet and the village doctor decided they could not remove the bullet. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The bullet entered King’s right jaw, traveled through his neck, severed his spinal cord, and stopped in his shoulder blade. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He held the little red shard up so I could take a look, then dropped it into the metal pan, where it clinked like a bullet, man. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z East Oakland in particular was awash in crack, blood, and bullets. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Kaylee is sitting cross-legged on the couch, texting her friends, and I’m sweating bullets. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Like a bullet I shot through the opening. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard a bullet whine past me and flinched even though I knew it was already gone. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Antibiotics would stop any infection that might result from the broken bones, the bullet, or the clothing fibers driven into the wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “It was three separate shots, and one of those bullets went right by my head! I swear I heard it zing past me.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z "You right. If they're fast enough. Don't a bullet travel at the speed of sound or something?" Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z The bullet is still in his head simply because it couldn’t be removed, which makes me fear that something could go wrong at any time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They seem to burn for an hour, and a man cannot make the least movement without bringing the bullets whistling round. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that the bruises were from bullets that had merely torn my flesh as they missed killing me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I felt a bullet zip past my ear. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z One of the bullets hits Reagan’s press secretary, James Brady, in the head. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The bullets and bombs might come again another day, but for now we were alive. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z And inside the classrooms, bullet casings littered the floors. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Many Civil War soldiers had lived for years with bullets in their bodies. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He used his fingers to pull the blood clot from the bullet hole. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He would point to the clearing, where “words could cost you a bullet in the head.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The bullet had gone cleanly through and struck a ewe in the backbone, killing her almost as fast as the coyote. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z So they put their fingers in their mouths to cool them, and watched Pa make more bullets. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit there, scratching the dry mud out from between my toes and then looking up at the sky, wondering when more bullets will rain down on us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see the bullets heading for them, could see their trails like wakes of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The bullets beat a sledgehammer tattoo on its cranium, causing instant concussion. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I washed the wound and dressed it, and then I hid the shirt with the bullet hole in it inside my mattress. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The gun was a Browning automatic pistol and one twitch of the man’s finger would send a 9mm bullet shattering through his skull and into his brain. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z My hands collide with the man, and the bullet hits the wall instead of him, instead of me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He calmed, and then, staying low to keep out of the way of any passing bullets or buckshot, she reached out with her mind to the other two. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Where you put your eye, you put your bullet.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Two bullets were retrieved from Whitehorn’s skull, and they appeared to have come from a .32-caliber pistol—the same kind of weapon that had been suspected in Anna’s murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z All the bullets find their way into the wall. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Today I killed twelve moving targets using only twelve bullets, and saved the life of my friend. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The guards returned fire, but their bullets pinged harmlessly off my armor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She had taken the threads of that moment and changed them, reversed the trajectory of the bullet so that it wasn’t coming for her—but for him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Just below the collar of the satin dress, the edge of a white bandage covers up the exit wound of the bullet that killed her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Surgical techniques then weren't effective or safe enough to search blindly for a bullet deep in the body or to repair vital organs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z To avoid being hit by a bullet, the warriors kept moving. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z One plane seemed to be right above us, seeding the ground around us with bullets and bombs, and as it trailed off into the distance, it set nearby patches of the darkness afire. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He uses them against me like bullets to the brain. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I inhale and brace myself, exhale and fire, and the bullet goes right where I meant to put it: in the red circle, in the center of the target. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z From my pocket, I pull the three silver bullets Tess had given me, the three bullets from my hospital break-in. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Every single part of her cut through his body like a hot bullet. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The war seemed fought with as much paper as bullets, what with the letters and the passes and permissions piled on the table, orders received and recorded, recordings of conferences noted down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He soon discovered that what the doctors in Swat told my father was incorrect—the bullet had, in fact, gone very close to my brain. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And then it was bullets flying over us, not snow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Tea Cake crumpled as his bullet buried itself in the joist over Janie’s head. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Oh, so you can throw her in the path of bullets, but she can’t hear a scary story?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I knew where this was going: the second his lips got near her, she was going to reach around and melt his face—even if it meant taking a bullet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He picked one up, looked at it like he was looking at a single bullet. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The bullet had gone through the leg of my blue jeans, leaving two small round holes, and the sock underneath showed a narrow, straight tear through which blood was slowly oozing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Then a young man named John Hinckley lunges forward with a .22-caliber pistol in his hand and fires six bullets at Reagan’s entourage at point-blank range before being wrestled to the ground. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The guards are under the simulation; they keep moving even when the bullets hit them, keep moving until their hearts stop, but they don’t reach my father. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I’m supposed to point it at his chest, but at this angle all I have is his back, and a bullet in the back could go straight through him and into Alyssa. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The Skraeling fell, grunting, as the bullet thudded into his leg. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And it made me feel better in some obscure way: imagining myself a hero, rushing fearlessly for the gun, instead of merely loitering in the bullet’s path like the bystander which I so essentially am. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Together at night behind locked doors they cast bullets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Rafik wanted to be reborn in Japan so he could ride the bullet train. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z About halfway to the bathroom, I sort of started pretending I had a bullet in my guts. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Jason touched the new furrow that the bullet had plowed through his hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The fifth and the sixth bullets hit him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z That girl, Tia, would know the sparkle of the silver bullets, easy. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Before moving away from the truck I make sure that there are bullets in my gun, even though I’m not sure if I’ll need them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z One fell flat on the landing, but the other tumbled down the stairs, his rifle firing, sending bullets pinging against the stone walls, the sound echoing down the stairwell. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At forty years old, Roosevelt led them through a hailstorm of bullets as they charged up San Juan Hill, in Cuba, and into a bloody battle. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He had in his pocket and placed on the parlor table the lead bullet they had given him to bite while they cut off his frayed leg. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It shoots bullets the size of milk cartons and if you hit a deer with it, all you leave is red mist. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “They threatened me many times. You have taken my bullet. It should have been me.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Still others fought bullets with rocks and schoolbags. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel two rubber bullets hit him in the shoulder. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Agnew inserted two rubber tubes to drain the pus filling the channel that extended down from the bullet wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “It’s not happening. Dr. King tried the peaceful way. They came back at him with bullets. They brought this war on us! It’s time to fight back.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She knew that not only would her father shoot the promised bullet into his head, but that any of the owners in the region would gladly do the same. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But then there was the whine of a bullet in the air, here and past, gone away, death sliding through the air a few feet above him, disappearing behind him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to see the bullet wound. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The police countered by dispersing mourners with tear gas, police dogs, rubber bullets and truncheons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Pap had gone to the shed and brung out four of his bullets and his pistol. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Return rifle fire splattered bullets in the snow near the warriors. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z We don’t talk about the danger—but what I imagine is a cartoon version, bullets flying and each boy a superhero, running, invincible, through a spray of gunfire. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Joe snarled, “Maybe the next bullet will knock out that plate glass window you got up front, Nick.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Chang cited a 1933 speech by a Japanese general: “Every single bullet must be charged with the Imperial Way, and the end of every bayonet must have National Virtue burnt into it.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z It got a bullet right through it, started leaking like a drain and puddling up on the pavement. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “It’s just like, who’s next? I’m scared for myself because bullets don’t have no names on them. That’s why I don’t go outside. There’s too much going on.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “You told me how you shot him in the chest. You had to patch the bullet holes in the suit. In this very suit I’m wearing, the one that saved your life.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The sounds of the bullets filled my mind. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z On the subject of politics he offered an enigma, “Whether you use bullets or ballots, you’ve got to aim well; don’t strike at the puppet, strike at the puppeteer.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I whip back to Bill, who is now frantically chambering his next bullet. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He streaked through the dark, thick underbrush of the forest like a bullet, like a ghost. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Fortunately, it looked like things were quieting down in Reston, and Dalgard felt relieved that his company had dodged a bullet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like just a matter of time before one of us did something desperate and bullets started flying. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This was, in effect a wind gun driven by atmospheric pressure and where the piston replaced the bullet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And the bullet had entered him, made a hole in him, and he had not survived it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Instead, I could end up more like George Orwell and take a bullet through the neck. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The women watching from the ground saw the gleaming red bursts of tracer bullets across the dark sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Or maybe, just maybe Lefty Lewis would take a bullet for me. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Heritage was in critical condition with bullets in both arms. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I could feel the stares of the other people in the shade, gazes drilling holes in my back like bullets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I close my eyes, lean my head back against the car seat, and wait for the bullets to get me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z With his finger, Bliss detected a broken rib but no bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Put a bullet in my skull. There will be messengers sprinting to your wife and your watch captain’s door before I hit the ground.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Chas looked around the circle of our dirty and tired teammates, and he bullet passed the ball to me and said, “Winger.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The bullet burst through his meaty shoulder and out the other side. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He clicks the bullet into the chamber and holds the gun out in front of him, both hands around it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z That kind of bullet made a very high-pitched whine, almost like a scream. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Its tears saved us from the red bullets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The bullets continued to fly behind us, but now their redness could be seen as they pierced through the bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The bullet caught the black man full in the stomach and for a moment the two men looked at each other in a suspended moment of horror, of incredulity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I grab Mateo and we jet because Peck and his people are here to kill and were the ones most likely to find a knife in our necks or bullets in our heads. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Doctors operated behind my ear—for nearly eight hours— trying to repair the facial nerve that had been cut by the bullet. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My shoulder is still sore from the bullet wound, but it is mostly healed. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She swerved that way and saw a gap between the coal-spirit barrels and the end of a corrugated iron shed, and darted for it like a bullet. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I jerk into action, aiming my left fist where I know it will hurt the worst: at the bullet wound in his arm. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Spends the long night at Fredericksburg piling corpses in front of himself to shield him from bullets. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark fired, heard a sharp ping as the bullet hit the metal contraption, then watched the weapon fall to the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They tie nkisis of leaves around their wrists and declare themselves impermeable to bullets, immune to death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They tore up one street and down another, windows rolled down, guns pointed out, spraying bullets toward the darkened homes and anything that moved. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I bet he keeps little silver bullets in there,” I said. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought I could fly from a bullet. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z With the force of a bullet, the wad of chewing gum shot out of the keyhole and straight down Peeves’s left nostril; he whirled upright and zoomed away, cursing. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Lyra saw sparks flying up from some of the bears’ armor, and saw them huddle over beneath its protection, before she heard the rattle of the bullets. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The bullet took off only a tiny flap of skin on the side of her nostril, and it came out clean, with no bullet fragments left inside. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When Ted Lavender was shot in the head, the men talked about how they’d never seen him so mellow, how tranquil he was, how it wasn’t the bullet but the tranquilizers that blew his mind. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them flatten on the floor, and a spray of bullets inside the station takes out the lights. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Then one of Toto’s bullets hit me on my leg and I remembered. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The voice rushed past Jason’s ear like a bullet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The rain was still pouring down—and now bullets were pouring down as well. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if Devon was trying to help someone like me when the bad guy with the bullet stopped him. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t kill a fellow like Rab with just a handful of bullets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Porringers, tankards, spoons, teapots, were being re-formed into bullets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Tamara’s plane had to be replaced; but the bullet holes in Raya’s Yak were completely repaired, and soon she was able to take to the skies in it once more. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Using diagrams, Bliss explained to the jury how the bullet passed through the president's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z My bullet wound still burns and my ribs ache something fierce, but this time I'm strong enough to sit up without too much trouble. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z One piece of his chest was missing—a clean black hole about the size of a bullet wound, right where his heart should’ve been. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z So I haven't another green bullet, the right kind, to put in your head. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z When finally I reached the place, all out of breath, I found her lying dead, with a bullet hole through her middle, right where it had to have shattered the heart. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z They gave him a drink of whiskey and a bullet to bite on. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Rab’s bullets were wrapped in an assortment of invitations to balls, protests of undying adoration: crude sonnets comparing her to Diana and Aphrodite. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On November 7, 1925, Bolton—whom a local reporter described as “one of the most beautiful girls ever reared in the city”—was found with a fatal bullet in her chest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When he was informed that Garfield was still alive, Guiteau said, “I wish I had given him the third bullet, and put him out of his misery.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After witnessing a mass shooting, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, decided that guns wasted too much time and too many bullets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The doctors told him that the bullet had not gone near my brain and that the injury wasn’t serious. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was as if the bullet that had struck down King had also pierced Hayti’s much-bruised heart. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She wasn’t skipping this time, but running straight as a bullet. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z All I can think of is the bullet in Shauna’s back. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z On any night someone in this city could put a bullet in his head for $30. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But the ones as got a good look claims it had a great fat mouse in its mouth, and it never let go, even when the bullets came after it.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Luckily for her, the bullet didn’t go through the baby’s body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In the professor's opinion, the bullet rested against important nerves, and he recommended leaving it there. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But they did not say anything, because Pa had told them never to touch a new bullet. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z No bullets striking us, no mortar shells exploding. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if we hadn’t seen the tan SUV speeding straight for us, it would have been impossible to miss the bullet that blew through the back window and shattered it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Hubbard's hard body forced him backwards, Hubbard's shoe tips slashed at his ankles, knotty shoulders bumped up into his chin, and the bullet head ground into his eyes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They believed that probing the wound was more harmful than the bullet itself. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The people in front had already done so, swept down by the wave of bullets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In some towns police were authorized to disable passing cars with ropes, chains, wires, and even bullets, so long as they took reasonable care to avoid gunning down the drivers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt a bullet whiz past my ear; it pierced the wall behind me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z His bullet wound oozes, but not with blood. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z On it is a gun and a single bullet. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A second bullet hits a police officer, Thomas Delahanty, in the back. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Saw the smoke, the flash, but did not hear the bullet go by. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s lucky the bullet went straight through the flesh. Any lower and it would have shattered the ankle.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And then a realization swept through my body as if I had been torn apart by bullets myself: My mother was not with Deborah. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He thought of that blue smock his mother had made him, now torn by bullets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Bliss and the other doctors believed this sound proved that the bullet was in the lower right front of the abdomen, just as they suspected. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Their arms and legs are missing; their intestines spill out through the bullet holes in their stomachs; brain matter comes out of their noses and ears. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Tracer bullets are bullets that are on fire so that they are visible to the person doing the shooting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As the men traced the path of the bullet—it had entered just below the crown, on a downward trajectory—there was no longer any doubt: Anna’s death had been cold-blooded murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The flaming exhausts on my hoverboard turn ninety degrees—I’m shot forward like a bullet from a gun. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Shelves of goods—buttons, handsaws, sugar, rifles, bullets, scissors, pencils, bolts of cotton cloth, medicine, toys, in no particular order—lined the walls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I wanted to understand exactly what had happened, where the bullet went, what exactly it had done. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “You can’t buy bullets with food stamps. You got to pay me money.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One minute, everything was quiet and serious and the preacher was going on and on and on; and the next minute, Winn-Dixie looked like a furry bullet, shooting across the building, chasing that mouse. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “And what if a bullet ricocheted off a tree and hit him? Or Genie? Did you think about that? What if it hit you?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The flash of the machine gun, the bullets ripping into the car, Ian Rider jerking in the driver’s seat... Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The first bullet got the man on the left; the second and third bullets took the men on the right and the center of the table. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Frankie clung to my trail, following me past riveted metal machines, past imposing cannons and naval guns, past armored plates and display cases of mortars and bullets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z All the way up that cliff, bullets kept spraying the sand in our faces and bouncing off the rocks around us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In my father and mother’s room, I saw where the bullets had gone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A young Washington doctor had a different idea about the bullet's location. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “At least were getting a fancy, Greek mythology-style death. They could have just given us quick bullets to the head. Now we get to die in style,” Tane said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The lawmen noted the position of Roan’s body—“his hands folded across his breast and his head on the seat”—and how the bullet had exited through his right eye and then shattered the windshield. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As the bullet whizzed over its tiny whiskered head, shattering the toilet seat, the mouse took off—a squeaking gray blur that scooted out the doorway, between Curly’s feet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z You were in a truck, and you expected bullets coming through the sides any minute. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all lined up, and blood still poured out of their bullet wounds. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “A bullet just missed my eye!” he said. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There’s only the one bullet in the gun. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The bullets, he said, would probably just rattle against the plates and fall off, but there were gaps between the plates and there was no telling how heavy the firing might be. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Two days later, the major was a shambler with a bullet in his skull and I had my first harvest at ten years old. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “This gets ugly, I’m shooting from close range. Maybe your guards get me or my guys, but no way you’re going to dodge this bullet.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Using his finger, Townshend removed a small blood clot at the opening where the bullet had entered. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Another crack, and this time the bullet went deep somewhere inside, seeking out the center of his life. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the only guy at the bar with a bullet in their guts. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z All around us, fresh blood leaked from the bullet holes in their bodies. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Laughter exploded out of me and couldn’t any more be stopped than a bullet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z "Drink with me," he says, and I shake my head, but then Jane pokes me in the back, and I realize that I have to take a bullet for Tiny. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Then I remembered what happened last time, and how when it came to my turn to shoot off the pistol the Preacher’d said he’d run out of bullets. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z If the kite was the gun, then tar, the glass-coated cutting line, was the bullet in the chamber. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He tapped his thumbs against his revolvers and said, “When the bullets start flying, you may find I’m nice to have around. Those pretty pictures aren’t going to keep you alive.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The bullets hiss, they make a steel net, never ceasing, never ceasing. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I draw my own gun, which is heavy with unused bullets, and put it in the container the security guard holds out to me, where all the others’ guns are. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I held on to him and rocked him and kissed him and tried not to think of Banalia, spun so violently by the bullet entering her head. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The barricades had been broken and the defenders were openly fighting in the streets, first until they used up their ration of rifle bullets, then with pistols against rifles, and finally hand to hand. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I wanted my strong, invincible dad to come back, the man who dodged gunfire in the massacre and escaped with bullet holes in his shirt collar. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She pulled on the trigger, and her whole body shook as bullets rattled against the enclosure glass like hail, pinging off in all directions. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The shot to the chest cracked a rib and punctured his right lung, but the bullet he took to the right shoulder messed up a bunch of nerves. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Armies need a lot more than weapons and bullets to fight a war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The only bullets that hit the boat came at night when everyone was flat in bed anyway. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He loaded it up with four bullets and raised it o’er his head. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I show a nurse my visitor pass and bullet straight into Dad’s room. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Outside the house came the sound of a pistol-shot; the glass of the window was shattered with a bullet, which, ricochetting from the top of the embrasure, struck the far wall of the room. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Reckon my bullet must have hit an artery,” he said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When there were three bullets in the gun instead of two. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then he hauled himself back into position, and even before he’d set his eye to the sight, he took a bullet. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One bullet for one man, and this is where I feel like the unluckiest person on earth. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The soldiers fire a volley of bullets at me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They were meant to stop bullets, but according to Mr. Gale, they’d been put up so clumsily, they’d fall over if a shell hit them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Before his eyes, he saw the bullet emerge from his chest. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The bullet spat out of his hand, red in the darkness. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Within a minute the crack of rifles, the whine of ricocheting bullets, the smash of pulverizing rock echoed and rang the length of the mountainside and along the hollow gulch behind. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But she just stays there until the bullet hits her and she crumples to the ground. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I remembered how the bullet had made a soft puffing noise inside me. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you see the muzzle blast, it means that the bullet missed.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like so many bullets, the particles slam into air molecules in the upper atmosphere, knocking off fragments that in turn strike other air molecules. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And al-most in the same instant bang! would go the bullet, too late, or too early. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Tension built as they found fresh footprints and spent bullets on the ground. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z As soon as the shot was heard he was brought down by two simultaneous bullets whose origin was never established and a shout of many voices shook the night. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “If I didn’t put a bullet in the chamber and you didn’t—then who did?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One of the bullets found her stomach, and the other found her chest. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z ‘Go away and come back in five minutes!’ she cried, and I shot out of the room like a bullet. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Ne-kah-e-se-y would coolly draw his bow and arrow, which the Osage considered more effective than a bullet. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The sergeant doctor in my squad dragged me into one of the houses and tried to remove the bullet. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The return to the landing zone was a repeat of the morning’s march, stretches of quiet interrupted by bursts of bullets from unseen enemies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "Wipe some of that filth off your face. And if you touch me again, I'll fill you with bullets." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A hail of bullets sailed past his head and embedded themselves in the neighboring trees. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Suppose I had a gun. With only one bullet in it. And I gave it to you. Would you shoot Ned, me, or yourself?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I could have been killed but I was lucky—the bullet just skinned my ankle. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Blast them skyward in a blaze of fire and bullets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z At their feet was a baby owl with my bullet in it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z After penetrating Garfield's skin about three and one-half inches to the right of his backbone, the bullet traveled downward and broke the two lowest ribs on his right side. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He wanted to shoot, but remembered that he had but three bullets left. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Rain began its blitz, tranging bullets off the roof and strafing the puddles round the barn. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Thanks to him, it turns out that I didn't die from the last bullet of the war after all. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z That was so fascinating, but one weird thing was that there were lots of bullets on the mantel, too, and they didn’t have little pieces of paper next to them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “I have killed the owl with a bullet molded by the Prince of Death!” he shouted at me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He says you’ll see the bullet holes all over the front and they should be left there to remind the Irish of English perfidy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He turned the animal over and showed the boy the small neat hole where the bullet had entered. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullets went in a thing called the cylinder, which looked a lot like a fat metal honeycomb that popped out from the side of the gun. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Even through the blood I could smell the flinty gunpowder from the bullet. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Hot rocks pelted her like bullets shooting down from the sky. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z When I came here as a child, he would always remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z We sit on a half wall just outside, under a great tree marked by bullets. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z How can someone watch his bullets hit someone? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But Baker didn't speak to Bliss or to any of Garfield's new physicians, especially after they stated that the bullet had gone down the right side toward the pelvis. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I dive to the ground, slamming my elbows into the floor, as a bullet goes past me, the sound vibrating inside my head. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I go back in time and imagine myself being a little slower, maybe tripping, and losing valuable time and losing my valuable friend as bullets rip apart his beautiful heart. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The refugee woman in the boat had also covered the little boy with her arm, which was no more use against the bullets than a sheet of paper. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z By some miracle, one of the bullets hits a guard, and my eyes water uncontrollably from the pain in my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He probably would've talked me out of cutting my shoes up and stealing the silver bullets from the sports store too. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I can creep along the edge of the room and surprise whatever guard is shooting at us before he gets the chance to fire a bullet into my brain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Lee’s boulder was soon scarred and pitted, and he felt the thud of the bullets as they hit it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I hated movies and books where people ignored bullets whizzing by their heads and zombies chasing after them so that they could make out, but I finally understood. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He shot himself in the chest with a pistol and the bullet came out through his back without damaging any vital organ. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “No blood spatters. No bullet holes. Nothing?” another kid asks. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She was taking raggedy fast-fast breaths and ’stead of thinking ’bout where each shot was aimed, she quit thinking ’bout anything but getting as many of them bullets out that pistol quick as she could. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z My mind was working like a shotgun with every bullet acting as a question. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He blundered into the bathroom while Adam was bathing and saw the ugly bullet scar and heard himself ask against his will, “Father, what’s that scar?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Somebody do us a favor and put a bullet in this guy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I know about them because I am one,” she says as she shoves a bullet in place. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A volley of bullets whistled past the basket, one striking a spark from the suspension ring and making Lee’s hands sting with the impact but none of them did any damage. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sergeant Boston Corbett, one of the men under Baker’s command, has fired a bullet that slices through Booth’s spinal cord and paralyzes him from the neck down. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z These clearly showed the path of the bullet as it entered, then exited the body. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z They didn't know where the bullet was, but the evidence indicated it had damaged the liver and perhaps other organs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The public offered solutions for dealing with the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In setting the trap for Faro, I had exposed an important secret: I had a gun and bullets. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Like machine guns that fired hundreds of bullets a minute, and poisonous gas that burned soldiers’ skin and lungs. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Guns fire and bullets stick in the mud next to me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A bullet punctured his lung, a bullet shattered his spine, another hit his shoulder. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The system worked with the same magnetic levitation technology used in Germany and Japan to propel bullet trains with magnets instead of wheels. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z It is full of bullet holes, but I manage to read it: Pingree. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Instead, a bullet was placed in the soldier’s mouth, and he bit on that when the pain became hard to bear. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z More bullets whizzed by my head, and more grenades landed around me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if the doctors had known about its damage, surgery to fix a blood vessel or remove a bullet deep in the body wasn't possible in 1881. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Planes flew over the train, so low just their passing shook the cars, and we heard the patter of bullets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, Paige decided to bite the bullet and go on Accutane, a new acne pill on the market that came with harsh side effects. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I believe that a word against him might be as dangerous to the one who spoke it as a Rebel bullet would be. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z If I can reach that without a bullet in my back, I might survive. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The time-honored solution is to create an outline, which is just a tree lying on its side, its branches marked by indentations, dashes, bullets, or Roman and Arabic numerals, rather than by forking line segments. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I wish I could confess to being a person full of hate for the Bureau and for David, a person who would let someone else get riddled with bullets to save herself. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I was resting and eating my lunch on the side of the river when the Ethiopian army attacked us with bullets, mortar shells, and grenades. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullet that hit my mother in the butt, he said, was a through-and-through. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The rancher swore that he had etched a cross on his bullet, and that proved that the old woman was a witch, and so he was let free. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If they hadn't continually searched for the bullet with germ-laden fingers and probes, the president probably would have survived. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z By turning on the pump, the bullet could be sucked out. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z This track, which later filled with pus, extended from the bullet's entrance. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z |
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