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"Point-blank" in a Sentence (18 examples)
He told me point-blank that I was fired.
I asked him point-blank.
He asked me point-blank to help him.
The Central Power is not ignorant of the ramifications of their acts, not after we've made point-blank statements, but they continue to get rougher and bolder, just as though they had the world in the palm of their hands.
Now, here's a useful tool—.470, telescopic sight, double ejector, point-blank up to three-fifty. That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago.
Heavily armed militants launched a series of coordinated attacks in rural Assam on Tuesday, pulling villagers from their homes and shooting them at point-blank range, witnesses said.
Fifteen of those people had died of natural causes, the rest from gunshot wounds, including point-blank shots, or from shrapnel.
a point-blank assertion
At this point-blank denial, Stephen turned his face away decisively, and preserved an ominous silence; […]
Yes, but surliness might have provoked a point-blank question.
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In recent years, the attitude of the railway authorities towards large-scale visits to works and sheds on the whole, has, happily, veered round from suspicion, and even point-blank opposition, to one of co-operation and ready welcome.
One day, when he was doing some valuation for me, he told me point-blank that clergymen seldom understood anything about business, and did mischief when they meddled; […]
About a week afterwards she said to him, point-blank, “Are you seriously making love to your little cousin?”
My father addressed himself to the gentleman point-blank, and there was quite a disturbance.
He was getting on well, so I understood, and had secured a fairly substantial position, and I had therefore ventured to ask him point-blank for the loan of fifty pounds.
Montgomery fired and missed, bowed his head, threw up his arm, and turned to run. I fired, and the Thing still came on; fired again, point-blank, into its ugly face.
For answer the girl raised her revolver and fired point-blank at him. Without a sound he sank to the earth, dead.
In fact in 2017, former Facebook president Sean Parker told news media company Axios point-blank that the central question driving Facebook in its early days was ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’
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