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. She's out on a video shoot.
2. If he's not armed, don't shoot.
3. The police rarely shoot to kill.
4. He is a member of a grouse shoot.
5. The troops were told to shoot to kill.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SHOOT
shoot
 v.  variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
 v.  emit (as light, flame, or fumes) 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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  There was no need to teach any of the men to shoot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  She would carry a pistol and shoot anyone who threatened her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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)
1  They were told to shoot enemies upon sight.
2  She's out on a video shoot.
3  He didn't shoot until he had a clear sight of the goal.
4  The police rarely shoot to kill.
5  The troops were told to shoot to kill.
6  He is a member of a grouse shoot.
7  A slight movement of the hand telegraphed his intention to shoot.
8  We illuminate the enemy plane with searchlights in order to shoot at it.
9  You might as well shoot for the moon and ask for a promotion as well as a raise.
10  Emily scraped away the dead leaves to reveal the tiny shoot of a new plant.
11  If he's not armed, don't shoot.
12  They were told to shoot enemies at sight.
13  Stand still there, otherwise I'll shoot.
14  A healthy shoot should form a strong graft.
15  You'll shoot in a truer straight line if you knuckle down.