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.

  • Several male columnists ignore most of the championship game and focus on the game-ending goal by American defender Brandi Chastain--"a shootout, womano a womano," with "one winner, one loser, everybody holding their breath."

  • 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.

  • The game was scoreless and ended in a penalty shootout.


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