Shot

//ʃɒt//

"Shot" in a Sentence (53 examples)

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

To our surprise, our son has suddenly shot up recently.

The reporter shot questions at the politician.

Water shot from the pipe.

The nurse gave me a shot.

We shot pheasants by the hundred.

Fossil fuel prices shot through the roof.

Give me a shot.

You'd better see a doctor and get a shot.

That's just a shot in the dark. How do you think you'll succeed by just acting on the spur of the moment like that?

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I have to go to bed now; I’m shot.

Tell me true, are you not glad to be fairly shot of him?

The rear axle will have to be replaced. It’s shot.

... but he finds it hard to resist helping the boss's sister, who also works there and whose body "is more shot than mine."

Thompson girl, I'm stranded at the Unique Motel / Thompson girl, winterfighter's shot on the car as well

The cloak was shot through with silver threads.

The shot was wide of the mark.

They took the lead on a last-minute shot.

England's attacking impetus was limited to one shot from Lampard that was comfortably collected by keeper Iker Casillas, but for all Spain's domination of the ball his England counterpart Joe Hart was unemployed.

The shot flew twenty metres, and nearly landed on the judge's foot.

For two years Templeton has given individual attention to Krenz. The young man has reciprocated by giving at least two hours each day to practice in the shot and discus.

Steel shot, unlike lead shot, avoids contaminating the land with spent lead.

The bank robbers' handloaded shotgun shells used rock salt as the shot.

The shot for this ship's deck guns, in that day, consisted only of solid iron balls such as ten-pounders.

Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war, They knew not, ah, they knew not ſimple men, How thoſe were hit by pelting Cannon ſhot, Stand ſtaggering like a quiuering Aſpen leafe, Fearing the force of Boreas boiſtrous blaſts.

He'd make a bad soldier, since he's a lousy shot.

Sir William was a Shot and could not support the idea of losing such a Day, even for such a Cause.

"But tell me, was it he who shot that goblin-hare down by Christiania, which you told me about once?" "Oh, that hare! No, that was a professional shot from those parts called Brandte-Lars."

As a shot, I will only refer you to my own game-book; and if, after examining the records contained therein, you can show me an equally proficient man in that special line, well — I'll take off my hat to him.

His lineage is legitimate. He has had an excellent education, possesses no debts, never hurt an animal or a woman, and is even a decent shot.

I'd like just one more shot at winning this game.

You won't see me buying a round of Jägerbombs for girls half my age because I know when I have no shot.

There are no decent galactic dating services. To have a shot at romance, you need to talk to people.

Spain’s acting prime minister, the socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, has a fresh, if fraught, shot at returning to power after his conservative rival Alberto Núñez Feijóo failed in his attempt to take office in an ill-tempered investiture debate that followed July’s inconclusive general election.

Schwarzenegger also is taking nasty shots from his own party, as GOP conservatives bash some of his appointments as Kennedyesque and traitorous to party values.

I'd like a shot of whisky in my coffee.

You can kiss a hundred boys in bars Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling

Yet still while I have got / Enough to pay the shot / Of Boniface, both gruff and greedy O!

We got a good shot of the hummingbirds mating.

Even if everyone else is taking close-up shots of the crumpled body of a rock climber who fell to his death, and your photographer did too, maybe you don't feel the need to air that shot.

On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.

tetanus shot

I went to the doctor to get a shot for malaria.

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gray took their daughter, Venora, to Dr. W. J. Buck for a tetanus shot the first of the week in order to guard against infection following a severe injury to her foot caused by stepping on a broken bottle in the canal last week.

[…] allowed heroin addicts to receive daily heroin shots supervised by a nurse in a clinical setting. Switzerland has since expanded this program due to evidence that crime rates and unemployment rates among participants drop during participation (266-7).

Chung Seo-un has traces of opium shots in her upper right arm, which is swollen and has hardened bloody lumps like stones.

His solo shot in the seventh inning ended up winning the game.

His order to me was, to see the top Chains put upon the Cables, and the Guns shotted.

The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell.

[Verse 2:Kano]:If you've been shotting in the manor from way back when and you ain't on a kilo ting, I don't wanna hear about cunch and food and tings, man don't do those tings.

Drink up. It's his shot.

Here no shots are where all sharers be.

A man is never […] welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome".

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