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bullet English

Meaning bullet meaning

What does bullet mean?
Definitions in simple English

bullet

A bullet is a small piece of metal thrown by a gun at a great speed. a loaded gun is dangerous because of the bullets that can be fired by accident.

bullet

If something bullets somewhere, it moves at high speed, like a bullet from a gun. He bulleted around the race track!

bullet

a projectile that is fired from a gun (= bullet train) a high-speed passenger train (= fastball, smoke) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity he swung late on the fastball he showed batters nothing but smoke

Synonyms bullet synonyms

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Topics bullet topics

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Examples bullet examples

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Simple sentences

There's only one bullet left.
A bullet pierced the helmet.
The bullet found its mark.
The bullet penetrated the partition.
He was killed by a single bullet.
He was wounded by a bullet.
Doctors removed the bullet.
A doctor tried to remove the bullet from his back.
Jackson asked the doctor to cut out the bullet at once.
A doctor tried to remove the bullet from the president's head.
The police found Tom lying on the floor with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead.
Tom was killed by a stray bullet.
Tom didn't notice the bullet holes in the wall.
President Lincoln was assassinated with a bullet to the head, right behind the left ear.
Tom was wearing a bulletproof vest, so the bullet didn't kill him.
Bite the bullet.
Martin Luther King, Jr., a man of peace, was killed by an assassin's bullet.
We were afraid that we might be hit by a bullet, so we ran downstairs.
The bullet penetrated his chest, leaving him in critical condition.
The bullet just shaved his cheek.
The bullet entered above the knee.
The bullet penetrated his chest.
The bullet went through his body.

Movie subtitles

In your head.. there's still a bullet there.
My companion was hit by a bullet.
A bullet in it. and go.
I love you so much for taking that bullet.
All of her commanding officers have bitten the bullet.
By someone who just took a bullet in the forehead?
Today Dr Basanow's corpse was found with a bullet in the head.
One day you'll stop a bullet and it'll all be worthless.
You might find a bullet through that head.
It's different. It's got bullet-proof glass and a steel body.
No empty shells were found in the street nor on the sidewalk, and the bullet's trajectory indicates the shot was not fired from a window but rather from a point almost level with the victim's head.
A bullet can cripple you for life!
The bullet passed through both lungs.
It's a bullet!
Normally it will activate only when a bullet comes into contact, but if we programmed it to stay on.
With our bodies weak as this, it would just take one bullet, and we'd be no more.
She shot one bullet at her assailant, later found in the paneling.
The bullet was found in the paneling.
Just as surely as though there were a bullet in my heart.
Right there, that's where the bullet hit it.
The clock opposite the vault was stopped by a bullet at 12:09.
You mean, push the bullet out or something?
No, that bullet's 50 yards out in the compound.
It's a bullet. -. smashed the window.
Find out about that bullet yet?
It looks like scar from a bullet.
This bullet, is this what you wanted to kill yourself with?
There's the bullet he was killed with, see?
And this bullet stuck among the hymns, eh? I'm not surprised.
If the professor didn't shoot me, where did that bullet come from?
Take these down and check them with the bullet that killed Landis.
And take a look at the bullet that killed this guy.
I get these bullet things out, I'll be comfortable.
If a bullet gets me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot.
You wouldn't like your suit spoiled with a bullet hole.
There's a cross on the muzzle of the pistol with the bullet. and a nick on the handle of the pistol with the blank.

News and current affairs

Alas, there is no single or silver bullet.
Unfortunately, thus far, there is no sign that the crisis countries, above all France, are ready to bite the bullet.
Biofuels were initially championed by environmental campaigners as a silver bullet against global warming.
CAMBRIDGE - There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone's woes. But the spectacularly muddle-headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising.
No one should expect that a single crisis can burn away all of a country's economic weeds, nor that the New Economy is a magic bullet for risk-free growth.
Still, as in so many other countries, high tech was no magic bullet.
There is no magic bullet for today's crisis.
These are modest proposals, because, when it comes to pro-growth reform in Europe, there is no magic bullet. There can be no centralization, and coordination always risks becoming murky.
Here's the translation to today's world: your discovery might win you the Nobel Prize, but it also might get you a bullet in the brain from a religious fundamentalist.
Of course, no magic bullet will do away with the forces that divide India.
But there is a silver bullet unlike any other which he can adopt and which can change Mexico dramatically: a currency board.
From bullet trains to the Mars rover, humanity has an insatiable appetite for pushing boundaries and breaking records.
Like most Americans, China's leaders believe that the US will ultimately dodge the bullet of an outright default.
Houses are riddled with bullet holes.
CAMBRIDGE - There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone's woes.
But bioplastics are not a silver bullet for managing plastics waste.
Meanwhile, Yousafzai - following her defiant response to an assassin's bullet two years ago - has led the fight to end discrimination against girls.
Much quoted since, this alarming statistic turns out to have been based on a single, unreferenced bullet-point from a report by an environmental think tank.
But, more broadly, EU commitments have now become relative, which implies that jointly guaranteed Eurobonds cannot be the silver bullet that some hope.
These are modest proposals, because, when it comes to pro-growth reform in Europe, there is no magic bullet.
Like the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, the French Revolution's clarion call for universal rights can be admired only from behind bullet-proof glass, and it is definitely too precious to be exported.
But could such an approach really be the proverbial silver bullet for Greece's crisis?
While canvassing for votes in his hometown in southern Taiwan on the eve of the election, President Chen and Vice President Annette Lu were both wounded by an assassin's bullet.
In the Eastern Province, a good start has been made, with former terrorists now winning through the ballot box and not the bullet.
While the high court decision and the appeal to the electorate means that Turkish democracy has dodged a bullet for now, the progress of Turkey's EU accession negotiations has been further slowed.
Amazingly, in the one area vital to its economic and social performance, America shies away from biting the reform bullet.
This also implies that Eurobonds will never constitute the silver bullet that some had hoped would solve Europe's sovereign-debt crisis.

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