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Example sentences for: shoot-out

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The Justice Department lawyer who worked on the draft told us that what was envisioned was a group of tribals assaulting a location, leading to a shoot-out.
Coming home I passed a sign that said in ten-foot letters COWARD SHOES and heard a man singing 'Golden Earrings' in a horrible voice, and last night I dreamed there was a shoot-out at our house on Meat Street and my mother shoved me in a closet to get me out of the line of fire.
And they had reason to worry about failure: millions of dollars down the drain; a shoot-out that could be seen as an assassination; and, if there were repercussions in Pakistan, perhaps a coup.
Her father, a member of the famous Otero family, was killed in a shoot-out when Nina was still a baby, and her mother later married A. M. Bergere.