Example sentences for: shootout

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

  • The Post reports that "New York police and federal agents arrested three men and seized five powerful bombs yesterday after a tense shootout in a seedy Brooklyn apartment, and the FBI began an intensive investigation to determine whether the suspects had ties to any Middle East terrorist organizations."

  • Seale, killed in Peru while on a mission; and Marine veteran and Washington, D.C., police officer Henry J. Daly, killed in a shootout.

  • 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.

  • (Editors take note: there is never a calm shootout.)

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


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