The pistol bucked in his hand, and the rock he had set atop the boulder shivered as the bullet sliced the air above it.

He tumbled sideways, and the next bullet sliced his neck, opening the carotid artery.

Three bullets sliced the back of his jacket but were stopped by the flak jacket.

A bullet or piece of shrapnel had neatly sliced off the top of his head.

The first bullet sliced past his head.

A shot was fired, and a bullet sliced Thugwane's chin.

A sleeping 6-year-old boy was wounded yesterday morning when a stray bullet sliced through the wall of his home in Hollis, the police said.

Behind her, bullets of ice sliced through a cone of streetlight.

The bullet had sliced through his heart, just as Mr. Johnson intended.

He could not stop the bleeding from his left ear where the bullet that had killed Ken had sliced it nearly in half.