pull trigger
Example Sentences
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“Lightly pull trigger until cheese extrudes from tip,” read the instructions, and you can’t help but think: “My God, what have we done?”
From The Guardian • May 17, 2017
But before he could pull trigger the strange two-pronged torch was tossed on high by somebody behind the messenger, and through the dull and foggy gloom a wild, fierce, penetrant cry wailed piercingly.
From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan
He saw the big bull often, and, although he was charged by him once again, he refused to pull trigger on the old fellow.
From The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
I was about to pull trigger a second time, when suddenly there darted between me and the charging brute a human form—Umkopo.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)
Do you ride foremost—but on no account pull trigger, or draw your sword, without my orders.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by Caruthers, William A. (Alexander)