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

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

"I shall pull trigger with a steadier hand, ma'am, when I think that your father's daughter is praying for me."

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

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