Explore Shooting through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like shot or homicide. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Shooting in a sentence
Related words
Shooting meaning
- Moving or growing quickly
- Of a pain, sudden and darting
Using Shooting
- The main meaning on this page is: Moving or growing quickly | Of a pain, sudden and darting
- Useful related words include: shot, propulsion, actuation, homicide.
- In the example corpus, shooting often appears in combinations such as: the shooting, shooting in, shooting at.
Example sentences (20)
Pena lost his bid for office in November by a landslide and is facing several counts of shooting at a dwelling, shooting at or from a motor vehicle and conspiracy to commit a shooting at a dwelling, as well as possession of a firearm by a felon.
In Cincinnati, police said three people were wounded in a single 2 a.m. shooting and a fourth person was wounded in another shooting at 2:30 a.m. In Akron, police were investigating the fatal shooting of a man reported about 10:30 p.m.
The shooting comes within a month of the shocking El Paso shooting, which was the most deadly mass shooting in Texas' state history.
This most recent shooting marks the third mass shooting in Texas in the past year, including the shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed 22 people less than a month ago.
The police launched an extensive investigation into the shooting, particularly looking into whether this shooting is related to another shooting in the area on November 23rd last year.
Brett Cross, who lost his son Uziye in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde last year, also lashed out at the Republican governor for not making mention of the deadly shooting.
California Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted that he was ‘at the hospital meeting with victims of a mass shooting when I get pulled away to be briefed about another shooting.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom was at a hospital meeting wounded victims of the Monterey Park shooting when he was “pulled away to be briefed about another shooting — this time in Half Moon Bay,” he said.
CNN and the Gun Violence Archive define a mass shooting as a shooting that injured or killed four or more people, not including the shooter.
Donald Ray Boyce charged with murder in connection to March 26 shooting A man accused of fatally shooting another man.
Drew said he wanted to clarify remarks he made just after the shooting on Friday, when he said there was an “altercation” before the shooting.
Everything seemed to fall for Whitewater as a team shooting 45% form the field and shooting 47% from three and 80% from the line.
He has a high shooting pocket,” Few said of Strawther’s 3-point shooting.
Investigators have not determined if Tuesday’s shooting incident is related to the shooting death of the man who recently died, the outlet reported.
Monday's shooting is the 129th shooting this year.
Nashville Police Department spokesperson Don Aaron said after the shooting that there were no police officers present or assigned to the school at the time of the shooting because it is a church-run school.
Pitt’s over-reliance on three-point shooting has factored into their inconsistencies, evidenced by its 25% shooting percentage from deep on 28 attempts against Florida State.
Rob then went on to reveal that they're actually shooting more episodes in less time, saying, "The crazy thing is we are shooting it in the same amount of days and in less time.
San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe the recent Half Moon Bay mass shooting was second shooting at California Terra Garden in 7 months.
Saturday evening’s shooting follows another shooting also in Gugulethu where four people in two vehicles were shot and killed.
Common combinations with shooting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the shooting 93×
- shooting in 34×
- shooting at 24×
- mass shooting 24×
- shooting and 19×
- school shooting 18×
- shooting from 15×
- shooting that 12×
- shooting was 11×
- shooting of 10×