How to Use at gunpoint in a Sentence

at gunpoint

phrase
  • The bad guy has guessed his secret identity and now holds our hero at gunpoint.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The store employee was forced at gunpoint to hand over cash from the register.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In each, police said a group of three men and a woman walk up to a victim and take the victim's phone at gunpoint.
    — Dylan Olsen, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • When the drivers arrived, they were held at gunpoint while the suspect drove off in their vehicles.
    — Michelle Richardson, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The victim was ordered out of the water at gunpoint and forced to empty his pockets before he was assaulted.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, authorities say he was robbed at gunpoint by the woman and another man.
    — Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • Robbed at gunpoint and knifepoint by two young men that threatened to KILL me over my watch and would have!
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Two soldiers who initially seemed kind took her into the jungle, held her at gunpoint and raped her while holding her mouth shut to stifle her screams.
    — ABC News, 23 July 2026
  • Journalists and military members were held at gunpoint at a Space Force base.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Video from a surveillance camera shows Lopez walk up, order him out of a parked car at gunpoint, and tell Cantu to come with him.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • In 1980, Cheek was convicted of raping a young woman at gunpoint.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Two to three suspects demanded victims' belongings at gunpoint using firearms equipped with lasers, police said.
    — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Salguero and his friend arrived in a car, at which point the defendants entered the vehicle and demanded money from the victims at gunpoint.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Once at the location, the cab driver told police that a man entered the vehicle and immediately held him at gunpoint.
    — Michelle Richardson, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Michelle Yeoh stars as a gifted doctor forced at gunpoint to operate on a gangster with a life-threatening condition.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026
  • There is no better illustration of speechlessness being deployed as a weapon, forcing the loquacious, as if at gunpoint, to fill the void with words.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Mingo allegedly entered each of the stores late at night -- after all or nearly all customers had left -- and robbed employees at gunpoint, officials said.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The suspects then forced the clerk into a rear employee office at gunpoint, where the clerk was allegedly assaulted, according to police.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Igoe said the armed suspect was being held at gunpoint by the CHP officer before the suspect got back in his vehicle and drove away.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • An altercation occurred inside the apartment, after which the victims were ordered to the floor at gunpoint, according to police.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Once inside, Ibarra and his friends terrorized the woman and an unidentified person, holding them at gunpoint and knifepoint, per the report.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • But white supremacists took back control of the city's multi-racial government at gunpoint, and launched a wave of violence that killed scores of Black residents.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 10 July 2026
  • Five people have been indicted for allegedly kidnapping a man at gunpoint in Hartford earlier this year and holding him ransom.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Those include instances of mistakes leading to innocent people being stopped and detained at gunpoint, as well as officers using data to stalk women.
    — Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2026
  • According to police, one of the suspects held a security guard at gunpoint, forced the guard to turn over his weapon and ordered him to face down on the ground before the group forced entry into the building.
    — Karma Sabbah, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Harris gave the teen verbal commands at gunpoint and Eccles complied, according to GBI.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 July 2026
  • Three armed men went on a stickup spree in Central Park Thursday night, robbing six people of their cell phones at gunpoint in four separate muggings, cops said.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The filing alleges that Palazuelos was arrested at gunpoint and held without probable cause for approximately seven to eight hours.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2026
  • Listening in from a nearby water tower via a wire, Rand realizes Kershaw’s connection to the plot and holds him at gunpoint, sparking a fierce brawl between them.
    — Max Gao, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
  • According to the claim, Daniel Maddox, was held at gunpoint, handcuffed, and then arrested outside the family home during the same incident.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2026

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