Example sentences for: shoots

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

  • Stories of wasteful shoots abound: the matching seaweed that had to be flown from California to the Caribbean for a fashion photo; the Annie Liebovitz Vanity Fair cover shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger that reportedly cost $100,000; the Vogue shoot in Africa in which, an ex- Vogue editor claims, the photographer and his huge entourage wined and dined to the tune of "hundreds of thousands of dollars."

  • The comparatively low expression level of the PEPCK gene in 4-day-old shoots weakens the hypothesis that its major function in maize is for gluconeogenesis in greening seedling parts.

  • Noticing that a willow tree cut down last year had resisted death, sending up dozens of shoots from its stump, I cut and forced those too.

  • Tweed traditionally kept lairds and lords warm as they went out on grouse shoots on their northern estates — before the invention of Goretex.

  • (These conspiracies are stacking up like Russian nesting dolls: Right-wingers advance conspiracy theories about Whitewater; the administration shoots back with a conspiracy theory about the right-wingers' conspiracy theories; now the Journal counters with a conspiracy theory about the administration's conspiracy theory about right-wingers' conspiracy theories.


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