noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ speeding
▪ stray
▪ single
▪ live
▪ explosive
▪ lead , plastic , rubber
▪ .45-calibre/.45-caliber , etc.
▪ machine-gun , rifle , tracer
▪ sniper , sniper's
▪
She was shot through the head by a sniper's ~.
▪ magic , silver ( figurative )
▪
a technological silver ~ that will solve the global warming crisis
VERB + BULLET
▪ dodge
▪ fire , spray sth with
▪
The embassy was sprayed with ~s.
▪ shoot (used of a gun)
▪
faster than a machine gun can shoot ~s
▪ load
▪ be riddled with
▪
The body was riddled with ~s.
▪ put
▪
They had put a ~ through his brain.
▪ deflect
▪ remove
BULLET + VERB
▪ hit sb/sth , pierce sb/sth , shoot sb , strike sb/sth
▪
The second ~ hit her in the back.
▪ miss sb/sth
▪
The ~ missed his heart by less than an inch.
▪ graze sb/sth
▪ enter sb/sth , penetrate sb/sth
▪ kill sb
▪ be lodged , lodge
▪
Surgeons are trying to remove a ~ lodged near his spine.
▪ go , pass
▪ fly across, around, etc. sb/sth , rip through sb/sth , smash into sb/sth , tear through sb/sth , thud into sb/sth ( esp. AmE ), whistle past sb/sth , whizz by, past, etc.
▪
A stray ~ whistled past his ear.
▪ bounce , ricochet
▪
The ~s ricocheted off the stones.
▪ come from sth
BULLET + NOUN
▪ hole
▪ wound
▪ scar
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ from
▪
It is a ~ from the same gun that killed the Italian.
▪ ~ in , ~ through
▪
He got a ~ in the back.
▪ ~ to
▪
He was killed by a single ~ to the head.
PHRASES
▪ a hail of ~s , a volley of ~s
▪
They died in a hail of ~s.
▪ take a ~ (for sb) ( often figurative )
▪
I would have taken a ~ for Jack.