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Definition of gunpoint in English: gunpointnounˈɡʌnpɔɪntˈɡənˌpɔɪnt in phrase at gunpointWhile threatening someone or being threatened with a gun. two robbers held a family at gunpoint while they searched their house Example sentencesExamples - The current problems in the local authorities cannot be solved at gunpoint as the strikes seem to believe.
- The raider made him open the bank, then threatened staff at gunpoint as they arrived for work.
- Boris sought asylum in Britain after being threatened at gunpoint by Russian gangsters.
- An armed robber who terrorised staff at his local pharmacy at gunpoint to get prescribed drugs, has been jailed for six years.
- Three teenage boys were threatened at gunpoint by a youth on Wandsworth Common in two separate incidents.
- When he refused to give up his plans, despite being threatened at gunpoint, he was tortured.
- These children had been held at gunpoint with explosive charges placed among them.
- Haggis was car-jacked at gunpoint coming out of a video store in Los Angeles.
- In 2001, two terrified women bank workers were hijacked in their car at gunpoint as they drove to work at the same bank.
- Every week in our local newspaper we read of yet another shop or post office that has been robbed, often at gunpoint.
- You can't be snoring in your bedroom and at the same time be holding up innocent citizens on the beach at gunpoint.
- Years of being scared of the Subway and being mugged at gunpoint meant that somewhere I longed to visit always seemed out of reach.
- He has gotten himself into many situations in small towns where he has been run out of a house at gunpoint.
- Two intruders were involved in the raid, in which four occupants of the house were threatened at gunpoint and told to hand over money.
- And when players tried to get out, they were, it is alleged, ordered back in at gunpoint.
- They threatened the four at gunpoint and bundled them into a van with blacked-out windows.
- Before you can even begin to get your bearings, you are pulled from the car and pushed down an alleyway at gunpoint.
- One was interrogated at gunpoint and threatened by the Americans.
- He was arrested at gunpoint last October, and is in jail facing charges of tax evasion, forgery and fraud.
- Two 16-year-old boys were among six people held at gunpoint and tied up in a restaurant robbery.
Definition of gunpoint in US English: gunpointnounˈɡənˌpɔɪntˈɡənˌpoint in phrase at gunpointWhile threatening someone or being threatened with a gun. two robbers held a family at gunpoint while they searched their house Example sentencesExamples - Three teenage boys were threatened at gunpoint by a youth on Wandsworth Common in two separate incidents.
- And when players tried to get out, they were, it is alleged, ordered back in at gunpoint.
- Every week in our local newspaper we read of yet another shop or post office that has been robbed, often at gunpoint.
- Haggis was car-jacked at gunpoint coming out of a video store in Los Angeles.
- He was arrested at gunpoint last October, and is in jail facing charges of tax evasion, forgery and fraud.
- The raider made him open the bank, then threatened staff at gunpoint as they arrived for work.
- In 2001, two terrified women bank workers were hijacked in their car at gunpoint as they drove to work at the same bank.
- Two intruders were involved in the raid, in which four occupants of the house were threatened at gunpoint and told to hand over money.
- These children had been held at gunpoint with explosive charges placed among them.
- He has gotten himself into many situations in small towns where he has been run out of a house at gunpoint.
- Two 16-year-old boys were among six people held at gunpoint and tied up in a restaurant robbery.
- When he refused to give up his plans, despite being threatened at gunpoint, he was tortured.
- Years of being scared of the Subway and being mugged at gunpoint meant that somewhere I longed to visit always seemed out of reach.
- An armed robber who terrorised staff at his local pharmacy at gunpoint to get prescribed drugs, has been jailed for six years.
- One was interrogated at gunpoint and threatened by the Americans.
- You can't be snoring in your bedroom and at the same time be holding up innocent citizens on the beach at gunpoint.
- The current problems in the local authorities cannot be solved at gunpoint as the strikes seem to believe.
- Before you can even begin to get your bearings, you are pulled from the car and pushed down an alleyway at gunpoint.
- They threatened the four at gunpoint and bundled them into a van with blacked-out windows.
- Boris sought asylum in Britain after being threatened at gunpoint by Russian gangsters.
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