How do you use Shoot in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like race or speed, plus the exact meaning.
Shoot in a sentence
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Shoot meaning
- To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
Synonyms of Shoot
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Using Shoot
- The main meaning on this page is: To launch (forcefully project) a projectile. | To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile). | To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
- Useful related words include: hit, pelt along, race, speed.
- Possible Dutch translations are: schieten.
- In the example corpus, shoot often appears in combinations such as: to shoot, the shoot, and shoot.
Example sentences (20)
If you want to realistically prepare yourself to shoot in defense of yourself or someone else, you need to be able to shoot out to the furthest distance you’re likely to have to shoot at, if not further.
He will shoot and shoot, and then shoot some more.
He’ll shoot and shoot and there’s no pressure to do anything except play this character you’ve created.
I started crying after the shoot because I thought I could remove this prosthetic after the shoot.
I’ve shot in Amritsar before but that was a guerrilla shoot, but here it was a proper shoot set up and we were bang in the middle of old Delhi”.
One person tried to guess what the shoot was for, or maybe it was wishful thinking, commenting on the post, "Album promo shoot?
They were forced to shoot him when he tried to shoot his way out.
This phone can shoot native 200MP images and the device can also shoot 4K videos.
As his co-star, argues in the WesternThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: when you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
In spite of whatever questions Hatcher had at the time, the shoot was so well-received that she later did another, steamier shoot which featured her in photos on a Superman-themed bed, its red blankets wrapped around her.
On the allegation that she threatened to shoot anyone who asked any more questions, or shoot herself, the claimant denied any threat but said that she does make “overly dramatic statements” to children in a “joking way” to put them at ease.
She can sometimes shoot the three, even though she doesn’t really shoot them.
Deja, a woman who witnessed the shooting told AFP that she yelled “don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him” as the deputies tried to stop Kizzee.
If you can shoot a black guy because he scares you it's certainly reasonable to shoot disease-ridden zombies.
It will include a photo shoot in Times Square, New York, and a photo shoot on Hollywood Boulevard.
She can drive to the basket, shoot the three and shoot off the bounce.
There is a saying that when an animal in the bush begins to run seriously, if you are a hunter, for you to kill that animal, you must shoot it very aggressively, otherwise you would not be able to shoot it down.
While there is a lot of shoot left on the film, kareena herself has a little less than a month to shoot for the film even though she has already shot quite a bit.
A 12-second shot clock will force teams to shoot quickly and shoot often.
According to The Secret Life of Pets" star showed up on the set on Monday, October 7 to do two hours of shoot and did another two-hour shoot on Tuesday.
Common combinations with shoot
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to shoot 83×
- the shoot 22×
- and shoot 17×
- shoot the 15×
- shoot and 12×
- shoot in 9×
- shoot at 9×
- photo shoot 9×
- shoot him 8×
- shoot of 8×