Example sentences for: shot

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

  • A Jordanian soldier shot and killed seven Israeli schoolgirls who were on a field trip to the "Island of Peace," a border strip shared by the two countries.

  • Of course, getting shot in the arm is about as far as you can go in the "I'm not bluffing" department, which may be why the curators call Burden one of the two role models for the mostly younger artists in this Biennial.

  • The day Bill Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes ? Or was it yesterday, when an action film starring Bruce Willis got squashed in its opening weekend by Lost in Space --featuring a fully clothed Heather Graham; the youngest girl from Party of Five ; and a human body count of zero--and Titanic . Some of us around here still remember when Titanic was going to be the Ultimate Boy Movie, based on the Ultimate Boy Tragedy, courtesy of Jim Cameron, the Ultimate Boy Director, the guy who put Jamie Lee Curtis in That Dress, shot down her cleavage, and blew up a bridge beneath her.

  • A Midwesterner, Will Hays, Jr., who is proud of his knowledge of post-Civil-War history, tells me the following origin of shot , as in shotglass , absent from “Gunning for the English Language”:

  • (On the night that Melvoin shot that 60 to 70 percent heroin and died, Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin shot the same junk and survived.)


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