SHOOT in a Sentence

Learn SHOOT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

264 example sentences for SHOOT, such as:

1. Don't shoot the messenger.
2. They were told to shoot looters on sight.
3. Drug addicts shoot up in the back alleys.
4. Tod's grandfather taught him to shoot a rifle.
5. The gang decided to shoot it out with the police.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHOOT
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shoot
 v.  emit something suddenly and forcefully
Classic Sentence: (153 in 11 pages)
1  And it'll be midnight before he gets her turned around to where she's so mad at the Chancellor she'll be asking Boyd why he didn't shoot him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  All that bothers me is that some one of these days you're both going to get lickered up and jealous of each other about that two-faced, little, green-eyed baggage, and you'll shoot each other.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  There was no need to teach any of the men to shoot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  They had sorely missed the excitement of the drills while away, and they counted education well lost if only they could ride and yell and shoot off rifles in the company of their friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  Hastily she began her decade, telling off the beads automatically but with a depth of emotion in her voice that caused Mammy to open her eyes and shoot a searching glance at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  Stuart had even threatened to shoot Charles, or Scarlett, or himself, or all three.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Last week my old boots wore completely out, and I would have come home with sacks tied on my feet if we hadn't had the good luck to shoot two Yankee scouts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  Perhaps I am too old to march but not to ride and shoot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  If anyone, black or white, comes up on your side of the wagon and tries to lay hand on the horse, shoot him and we'll ask questions later.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  But Scarlett did not laugh at this and Ashley, who had laughed, stopped abruptly as he saw Mammy shoot a quick, guarded glance at Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  She would carry a pistol and shoot anyone who threatened her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  She had shot one man and she would love, yes, love to shoot another.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  All right, Gus; shoot her along.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Like to get out and raise Cain and shoot a few drinks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
Example Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
16  Don't shoot the messenger.
17  Commandos are inclined to shoot first and ask questions later.
18  Sorry, but I'll have to shoot off before the end of the meeting.
19  They were told to shoot looters on sight.
20  The gang decided to shoot it out with the police.
21  You'd turn on the water, and it would shoot straight up in the air.
22  They threatened to shoot him and robbed him of all his possessions.
23  I saw Leonforte shoot him down like a dog in the street.
24  Drug addicts shoot up in the back alleys.
25  If prices shoot up any higher, no-one be able to afford to live in the area.
26  If raging inflation returns, then interest rates will shoot up.
27  He said that Lizzie had been drunk at the time and I saw her shoot him a withering glance.
28  The police broke her alibi by proving she knew how to shoot a pistol.
29  The soldiers lined us up against a wall and I thought they were going to shoot us.
30  Tod's grandfather taught him to shoot a rifle.