draw a bead
Example Sentences
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It’s still hard to draw a bead on this team.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2024
In the amorphous twilight of the Afghan war, it isn’t enough to draw a bead on the enemy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2016
He may be the first president of my lifetime who comedians have never been able to draw a bead on the way they could with every other Oval Office occupant of the last 50 years.
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2016
Just as we would draw a bead on one, it would change course.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2016
Then she’d whirl and be gone before I could draw a bead on her.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
