How to Use at gunpoint in a Sentence

at gunpoint

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• The bad guy has guessed his secret identity and now holds our hero at gunpoint.
  — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
• In each, police said a group of three men and a woman walk up to a victim and take the victim's phone at gunpoint.
  — Dylan Olsen, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
• The victim was ordered out of the water at gunpoint and forced to empty his pockets before he was assaulted.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
• Instead, authorities say he was robbed at gunpoint by the woman and another man.
  — Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
• Robbed at gunpoint and knifepoint by two young men that threatened to KILL me over my watch and would have!
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
• Two soldiers who initially seemed kind took her into the jungle, held her at gunpoint and raped her while holding her mouth shut to stifle her screams.
  — ABC News, 23 July 2026
• Journalists and military members were held at gunpoint at a Space Force base.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
• Video from a surveillance camera shows Lopez walk up, order him out of a parked car at gunpoint, and tell Cantu to come with him.
  — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026
• Two to three suspects demanded victims' belongings at gunpoint using firearms equipped with lasers, police said.
  — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
• Salguero and his friend arrived in a car, at which point the defendants entered the vehicle and demanded money from the victims at gunpoint.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
• Michelle Yeoh stars as a gifted doctor forced at gunpoint to operate on a gangster with a life-threatening condition.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026
• There is no better illustration of speechlessness being deployed as a weapon, forcing the loquacious, as if at gunpoint, to fill the void with words.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
• Mingo allegedly entered each of the stores late at night -- after all or nearly all customers had left -- and robbed employees at gunpoint, officials said.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
• The suspects then forced the clerk into a rear employee office at gunpoint, where the clerk was allegedly assaulted, according to police.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Sep. 2026
• An altercation occurred inside the apartment, after which the victims were ordered to the floor at gunpoint, according to police.
  — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
• Once inside, Ibarra and his friends terrorized the woman and an unidentified person, holding them at gunpoint and knifepoint, per the report.
  — Logan Smith, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
• But white supremacists took back control of the city's multi-racial government at gunpoint, and launched a wave of violence that killed scores of Black residents.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 10 July 2026
• Five people have been indicted for allegedly kidnapping a man at gunpoint in Hartford earlier this year and holding him ransom.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 15 Sep. 2026
• Those include instances of mistakes leading to innocent people being stopped and detained at gunpoint, as well as officers using data to stalk women.
  — Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2026
• Harris gave the teen verbal commands at gunpoint and Eccles complied, according to GBI.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 July 2026
• Three armed men went on a stickup spree in Central Park Thursday night, robbing six people of their cell phones at gunpoint in four separate muggings, cops said.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
• The filing alleges that Palazuelos was arrested at gunpoint and held without probable cause for approximately seven to eight hours.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2026
• Listening in from a nearby water tower via a wire, Rand realizes Kershaw’s connection to the plot and holds him at gunpoint, sparking a fierce brawl between them.
  — Max Gao, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
• According to the claim, Daniel Maddox, was held at gunpoint, handcuffed, and then arrested outside the family home during the same incident.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2026
• The two employees were conducting seasonal fieldwork near a campground when two men, a father and son, abducted them at gunpoint, zip-tied them and led them to a remote trailer, according to officials.
  — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
• Prosecutors say the three victims, including a man who worked as a driver for Arnold, were robbed while being held at gunpoint in a Tampa apartment in February.
  — John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
• Videos of Soliman protesting against the treatment by the authorities and being held at gunpoint by a police officer in the hotel have been published in international media.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
• The police had cleared the building, methodically smashing in the doors of the English department room by room, and had finally ushered my brother and his professors outside at gunpoint.
  — Hazlitt, 25 Feb. 2026
• Ameiss had been suspended after an officer under his supervision held a Black hotel employee at gunpoint while seeking a white male suspect, according to a media report at the time.
  — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2026
• Investigators say Gonzalez was robbed at gunpoint while meeting Castro in the Aldine area last Sunday to sell property.
  — Joe McCoy, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026