Collocations for bullet - noun

speeding
stray
single
live
explosive
lead, plastic, rubber
.45-calibre/.45-caliber, etc.
machine-gun, rifle, tracer
sniper, sniper's
She was shot through the head by a sniper's bullet.

magic, silver (figurative)
a technological silver bullet that will solve the global warming crisis

dodge
fire, spray sth with
The embassy was sprayed with bullets.

shoot (used of a gun)
faster than a machine gun can shoot bullets

load
be riddled with
The body was riddled with bullets.

put
They had put a bullet through his brain.

deflect
remove

hit sb/sth, pierce sb/sth, shoot sb, strike sb/sth
The second bullet hit her in the back.

miss sb/sth
The bullet missed his heart by less than an inch.

graze sb/sth
enter sb/sth, penetrate sb/sth
kill sb
be lodged, lodge
Surgeons are trying to remove a bullet lodged near his spine.

go, pass
fly across, around, etc. sb/sth, rip through sb/sth, smash into sb/sth, tear through sb/sth, thud into sb/sth (esp. AmE), whistle past sb/sth, whizz by, past, etc.
A stray bullet whistled past his ear.

bounce, ricochet
The bullets ricocheted off the stones.

come from sth

hole
wound
scar

bullet from
It is a bullet from the same gun that killed the Italian.

bullet in, bullet through
He got a bullet in the back.

bullet to
He was killed by a single bullet to the head.

a hail of bullets, a volley of bullets
They died in a hail of bullets.

take a bullet (for sb) (often figurative)
I would have taken a bullet for Jack.