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Example sentences for: shootout

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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.
Yesterday morning, says an LAT front-pager, a man was killed in a shootout with police officers after he lead them on a three-hour freeway car chase.
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."
(Editors take note: there is never a calm shootout.)