Words similar to shootout

Example sentences for: shootout

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

It's a virtuoso shootout, a riot of angles--the villains depicted in whispers, scudding shadows, flashes of body parts.
Typical of this type of drama is the 1976 film The Enforcer , a sequel to Dirty Harry . Eastwood pursues a gang of hippie terrorists who murder assorted innocents and kill his female partner in a shootout.
The Guardian wonders why the English team is bad at penalty shots (the match was decided in a penalty shootout).
Santoro's high-tech odyssey and the movie's themes don't intersect as they did in Blow Out (1981), and the climax doesn't unify the movie's visuals--the way the angled escalators in the shootout of Carlito's Way (1993) were like a grand, trigonometric punch line.
(Editors take note: there is never a calm shootout.)