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Meanings of stray bullet in English

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Usage of stray bullet in English
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Maybe we'll get lucky and a stray bullet will hit another Evo.
Catch and Kill
2
Just a stray bullet; just a broken back; just a finish.
No Man's Land
3
Perhaps that had simply been a stray bullet, a random event.
Ruthless
4
G. Aked, who was killed by a stray bullet in the front line.
The Fifth Leicestershire / A Record of the 1/5th Battalion the L...
5
But a stray bullet struck the king, and the Abyssinians decided to retire.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
6
Once or twice he heard the whine of a stray bullet high overhead.
Alice of Old Vincennes
7
One policeman was injured by a stray bullet in the operation.
Reuters
8
The great captain lost his life by a stray bullet before Noda castle.
Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese O...
9
Nobody knows when or whom the next stray bullet might strike.
The Guardian
10
He was shot dead through the heart by a stray bullet.
The Record of a Regiment of the Line / Being a Regimental Histor...
11
He was killed by a stray bullet during a visit to the trenches.
Letters from France
12
Too much of a chance one of those kids catches a stray bullet.
Storm Front
13
Had a stray bullet found my cousin I should not have grieved profoundly.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
14
A stray bullet is a stray bullet no matter whose gun fires it.
Ebony
15
There's not much fun or glory in being killed by a stray bullet.
The Rising of the Red Man / A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellio...
16
A stray bullet from one of my men struck me there, I think.
Beverly of Graustark
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