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 hunter had taken aim, and was about to pull trigger, when the canoe commenced rocking about, as if tossed upon a stormy sea!

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

Ben was sorely tempted to level and pull trigger; but, still fearing that even at that close distance the snipe-shot would scatter and do no hurt, he held back.

From Ran Away to Sea by Reid, Mayne

I don’t want any feller in the crowd that’ll say he didn’t pull trigger on Bonbright.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice

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)