Example sentences for: shootout

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It was she, more than Chastain, who won the game by blocking one Chinese kick in the shootout.

  • It's a virtuoso shootout, a riot of angles--the villains depicted in whispers, scudding shadows, flashes of body parts.

  • The Guardian wonders why the English team is bad at penalty shots (the match was decided in a penalty shootout).


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