Example sentences for: shootin

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

  • This duplicates precisely the U huntin'-shootin' -fishin' locution of my British youth, and could be another reason for calling West Indians the last Englishmen left around.

  • A curious aspect of RP was (or is) its continual shifting: as soon as some of its characteristics are adopted by speakers of a different social or educational class, RP speakers, by consent that could scarcely be tacit, change the rules of the game, coming up with shootin' and huntin'.

  • Sure as shootin', I've just shot my wad—lock, stock, and barrel—demonstrating how guns and cannons echo through our language.


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