Example sentences for: shoot-down

How can you use “shoot-down” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The LAT and NYT top-front India's shoot-down of a Pakistani plane, resulting in the deaths of 16 aircrewmen.

  • The legacy of the Cold War, the hatred of Castro among Cuban emigrants, provocations like the shoot-down of "Brothers to the Rescue" planes over international waters (along with Castro's belief that he is strengthened by confrontation with the United States) have brought us to this point, where American politicians are comfortable with one set of principles for the Caribbean and another for the Pacific.

  • The Washington Post has the most fine-grained causal list, adding as factors Sharif's failure to authorize a military response to India's July shoot-down of a Pakistani navy training flight, his promise to consider signing the comprehensive test ban treaty, and his plans to divert money from the military to housing for the poor.

  • The WP and NYT report that former Angolan rebels say their leader, Jonas Savimbi, ordered the shoot-down of two U.N. aircraft that crashed mysteriously on separate days just over a year ago, resulting in 22 deaths.

  • Actually, the shoot-down took place three years before the Gulf War and occurred because the Airbus was mistaken for an Iranian F-14.


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