Example sentences for: shoots

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

  • He stumbles back to his hotel via the dump, where he shoots the breeze with hobos and indulges in his favorite form of recreation: picking off rats with his .45.

  • "Dharma and Greg (ABC; 8 p.m.): Dharma gets her toe stuck in a bowling ball and shoots BBC newscaster Jill Dando in the head."

  • Rice needs lots of water, so the paddy (the shoots are grown from seed) is transplanted when the June rains flood the fields.

  • The Target Shoots First is amazingly moving, at least for me, precisely because it reminds me of what it was like to feel that way, and so of what it is like not to feel that way now.

  • The grapes used for wine have seeds, but they've been cloned from shoots for more than a hundred years in the case of many vineyards.


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