1.   In his open palm were two spent bullets, subtly different in shape from anything I was familiar with.

2.   Shells and spent bullets whistled overhead as a heavy machinegun thumped away in the background.

3.   -- The spent bullet was never found.

4.   Nowadays the streets are more likely to sport crushed syringes, spent bullet casings and the chalk outlines of hapless citizenry.

5.   She sits behind his desk sometimes, a green bowl of spent bullet casings within reach.

6.   Significantly, he said, details of the story tallied with evidence in the garden of spent bullets from an automatic weapon and pools of blood along the fence.

7.   Spent bullets littered the floor.

8.   The families of the dead had to compensate the police for the spent bullets.

9.   There was no sign of fighting, no spent bullets on the ground, no pockmarked walls.

10.   When she opened a dictionary of religious quotations, Mrs. Engelberg found a spent bullet from an Uzi submachine gun.