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bullet holes

n. (bullet hole English)

Usage examples of "bullet holes".

A well housing in the front dirt yard, a rusty 1949 Oldsmobile with bullet holes across the windshield sinking on its rims nearby, big yellow tumbleweed skeletons scattered among a few sunflowers, then the raggedy cottonwoods along the creekbed across the road and the majestic snowcapped Midnight Mountains beyond.

I know it sounds incredible, but when that man's body was found in the river a week later, there were two hundred and seven bullet holes in him by actual count.

If we managed to break open the hatch, if we managed to get off the schooner without too many bullet holes in us, if we didn't subsequently drown, if we weren't eaten alive by sharks or barracuda or whatever else took a fancy to us during the hours of darkness, if that island were far away from our jumping-off point or, worse, didn't exist at all, then it seemed like a good idea to have a water-soaked blanket to ward off sunstroke.

He took out a silver dollar and placed it over the two bullet holes in Sandy's chest.

Both have what appear to be bullet holes in the center of the occipital region of both bodies.

About once a month Lavadie had to tack up a fresh sign because the old one, perforated by bullet holes, became illegible--Lavadie's gravel pit also happening to be the place to sight in one's rifle during the several months preceding deer season, during which time Lavadie didn't even bother to replace his sign lest somebody decide to adjust his crosshairs against the bridge of Lavadie's nose, or across the third brass button from the top of his vest, which was situated more or less directly over his heart.

Although from the amount of blood and the number of bullet holes, it might be futile.

He could see the bullet holes in the other machine's engine cowling and wing.

The body tossed out of the back was dead as well, with two bullet holes in the face.

The front door was full of bullet holes, the dark brown varnish splintered back to show the raw wood underneath.

He had seen the blood, the torn clothes, the chipped tiles, the bullet holes.