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

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

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

But before he could pull trigger the iron door had clanged shut.

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)