How to Use bullet point in a Sentence

bullet point

noun
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  • Then there’s the bonus fourth bullet point added to the 2022 version of The Game.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The covers show the grade, vs. age, and inside are bullet points.
    — The Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2019
  • That’s the kind of bullet point in an old to-do list that Epic will use against Apple in a court of law.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The last bullet point on the slide gives a pretty strong hint that the games won’t arrive until 2023.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The pool trade likes the bullet point that a backyard pool requires no more water than does a lawn.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • Even when those notes are boiled down to bullet points on note cards, Trump does not always heed them.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • But how long, for example, has the Wall Street Journal had that side rail that has the bullet points?
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 2 Aug. 2018
  • But that title is only the latest bullet point on their long list of firsts.
    — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The Badgers’ one chance for a marquee résumé bullet point will come against the Wolverines.
    — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • And to have the bullet pointed at me, my school, my classmates, my teachers, my mentors.
    — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2018
  • And oh, the Wildcats second-year coach had a list of bullet points at his disposal.
    — Matthew Stevens, The Courier-Journal, 27 May 2018
  • Before our last session, my therapist offers to write a few bullet points on a Post-it note for me.
    — Meaghan O'Connell, The Cut, 9 Apr. 2018
  • But the truth is, there's usually a bullet point or two or three of adversity to deal with in every game.
    — Fletcher Page, The Courier-Journal, 10 Jan. 2018
  • On Sunday in a 21-20 preseason loss to the Eagles, York added one more bullet point to that rookie resume.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Nyko clearly isn't trying to compete with those bullet points.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Even so, Rose had a legal pad filled with bullet points and the corresponding plays were cued up on the monitor, ready to show our mistakes in HD.
    — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The 10th bullet point on the third page of Indiana’s football game contract with UConn has words a casual fan wouldn’t expect.
    — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2020
  • Here's the recommendation with charts, graphs and bullet points.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019
  • While Taylor the person was a mere shadow, her infractions were writ large, cast in bullet points pulled from Sherwin’s case files.
    — Lynell George, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
  • Performance matters more, with high frame rates often being the biggest bullet point in games making the jump from an old console to the new.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The more standard route is for the administration to lay out, for instance on health care ... a series of bullet points at the minimum, or a full bill.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Gerstenfeld wrote in a bullet point list of meeting topics.
    — oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2021
  • That’s in contrast to the first bullet point, which addresses marketplaces in which the operator does own the goods being sold.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Those wins will become bullet points in the data that the stakeholders who invest money in these artists (record labels) refer to.
    — refinery29.com, 21 May 2018
  • The briefings were slimmed down in length, chopped up into easy-to-digest bullet points, and decorated with lots of graphs and pictures.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The reaction to the suggestion — which was outlined in one brief bullet point in the lengthy proposal — has been fierce, prompting thousands of Arab Israelis across the country to take to the streets.
    — NBC News, 22 Feb. 2020
  • The best presentations are those with an opening and closing slide and six slides of content, no more than six bullet points on each slide and no more than six words per bullet point.
    — Karen B. Moore, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Provide enough detail under each role in bullet point form using enough industry key words to get through the screening process.
    — Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 26 Feb. 2018
  • And the battle arenas' clear designs didn't just dump a bunch of verticality into the fray as a press-release bullet point.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 9 June 2019
  • John Stamos can add another bullet point to his resumé.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2023

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