He bolted up from a deep sleep, his hand reached for a nonexistent weapon.

Kaminsky gestured at nonexistent weapons that might have thronged his small office; bitterness made his voice into a wail.

When the criticism is about the hyping of the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction before the invasion, the administration replies that the Clinton administration thought the same way.

Half-forgotten instinct ruled their first waking seconds-their bodies hit the floors of their bedrooms, and each cursed as he realized frantic pawing for nonexistent weapons was futile.

More unpleasant topics, like Americans torturing Iraqi prisoners or nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, get shorter shrift.

That was found to be as fallacious as the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.

She groped for a nonexistent weapon.

"If I have no weapon which may be used, I assume you have no objection to my using this nonexistent weapon on you?"

"Come on, fella," I said, reaching for a nonexistent weapon.

The nonexistent weapons of mass destruction dropped out of the picture long ago.