She kept it up and soon the guard shot off a pistol shot and a bundle of snow on a cliff fell atop the group.
That was about when the pistol shot split the air.
Police said they were investigating one incident of ‘road rage’ in which a driver fired four pistol shots toward a car he claimed jumped its turn in a fuel line.
The bow released with a sharp snap sounding like a small-calibre pistol shot.
‘I heard three single shots which sounded to me to be revolver or pistol shots,’ he said.
On some nights, you can hear a pistol shot and the sound of a body falling down the stairs.
It took just thirty-six days to go from two pistol shots to a Europe-wide war.
After thirty years I do not know whether the Official IRA unit, arriving after the Army shooting had ceased, fired one or two pistol shots.
She remembered: ‘I ran for my life, expecting a pistol shot behind me any minute.’
They awaited the signal, which was to be a pistol shot.
As he turned around to motion for them to follow, a pistol shot went off, Spencer jolted and blood started flowing from his shoulder.
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
There were no villains in that small apartment in San Jose when the single pistol shot was fired that night, only victims.
That's his class picture there, back from the days he marched in the school band (he was the drum major) without firing a single pistol shot.
I was there, close enough to hear the three pistol shots.
After a service of remembrance, pistol shots were sounded across the grave and a canon fired a single shot.
Oh fearful sound, a pistol shot crashing and reverberating across the small room.
He raised his blade-wielding hand to cut me again, but the deafening sound of a pistol shot pierced the air and made us all freeze.
Before they jumped into the getaway car and sped off, Conway snapped a pistol shot at the armored truck to vent his homicidal frustration.
Pornographers will tell you that laughter in a sex scene is like a pistol shot at a concert.
1.1mass nounThe range of a pistol.
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my object was to get within pistol shot of the buffalo
Example sentencesExamples
The site was with sight of a fortified Vietnamese army compound just a pistol shot away.
Surrounding my digs are acres of chaparral and scrub oak, and the closest pavement is a good pistol shot away.