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

The winter was their busy time, When all was snow and frost and rime, It paid best then to pull trigger, For then furs were better thicker.

From Poems of James McIntyre by McIntyre, James

Of course I'll go with you, but I'm blessed if I pull trigger on that gentleman pig——" "You must!

From The Danger Mark by Wenzell, A. B.

Tom evidently had not suffered in his aim because of allowing his chum the first chance to pull trigger.

From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by Rathborne, St. George

For just one fair crack at that rascal, even at a hundred yards' distance, I would bargain to break my Betsey, and never pull trigger again.

From David Crockett His Life and Adventures by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)