Example Sentences

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First, he picked up the pistollike weapon and checked it, and then he examined the many instruments on the panel in front of him.

From Police Operation by Piper, H. Beam

"José Martinez!" snapped the coronel, leveling a finger pistollike at the puntero.

From The Pathless Trail by Friel, Arthur O. (Arthur Olney)