How to Use scattershot in a Sentence

scattershot

adjective

• That scattershot revival had the wit to cast Sir Patrick way against type.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• Some states aren't waiting, but the process can be scattershot.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
• The final third of the episode plays out in the scattershot manner that derails Brooklyn Nine-Nine from time to time.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
• Adding to the second-guessing about who should be getting shots is the scattershot feel of the rollout, and the sense that some might be gaming the system.
  — Candice Choi, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2021
• The hip-hop star and fashion mogul has launched a scattershot campaign that many of Trump's allies believe could siphon votes away from Biden.
  — Jonathan Lemire , David Eggert, Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
• There was some fear in his kitchen that their brand of hot food served out of a box would lead to scattershot negative reviews online.
  — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 8 July 2020
• The scattershot offense with no real rhythm or identity is still the same.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2019
• But many critics found the new run of episodes, which moved the action to Europe, to be scattershot, trippy and weird … and not a good weird, but a head-scratching, off-putting weird.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• Instead, the focus in the opening scene is on a fractious and scattershot meeting of the school’s parents’ council.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2019
• At the time, emergency medicine was a rather scattershot affair.
  — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020
• Higley’s office still holds boxes of papers with the five-pad imprint amid dark scattershot loose soot.
  — Elizabeth Miller, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2022
• The Bureau of Prisons has been accused of missteps and scattershot policies since the virus reached the U.S. earlier this year.
  — Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak, Star Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
• Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague’s book shows how scattershot January 6 was—and why a repeat could be harder to stop.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
• Most disconcerting was the return of the old Josh Allen — the one with scattershot aim and wild, dangerous scrambles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• Musk learned the hard way that scattershot employment practices don’t fly in Europe.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• The update's scattershot progress reports gave no indication that any of that has been done.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2022
• The system can be confusing for providers and results in enforcement that can feel scattershot and slow.
  — Lindsay Gellman, Wired, 17 Nov. 2021
• Still, the scattershot shows are no substitute for steady work, and for many behind-the-scenes workers, the last 12 months have been a financial apocalypse.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2021
• This is grunt work Mr. Trump was slow to undertake in his celebrity-powered, but scattershot, campaign in 2016.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
• The federal government’s halting response to the spread of covid-19 has spurred states and cities to take on the virus with a scattershot list of closures and public advisories.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2020
• For a thousand men to fling a thousand bullets scattershot at a thousand others in hopes of hitting one or two of them is something of an indignity to the grace and art of the weapon.
  — Declan Leary, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• But scientists say most of that has been spent on projects that are too scattershot and small-scale to actually increase salmon numbers.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
• But Giuliani successfully pressed Trump’s case on cable TV, even though some of the scattershot interviews seemed to do more harm than good.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
• But Giuliani successfully pressed Trump's case on cable TV, even though some of the scattershot interviews seemed to do more harm than good.
  — Jonathan Lemire, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• But since Week 5 of this season against the Ravens, which featured a 13-play touchdown drive on their second possession, the Browns’ first-quarter success has been scattershot.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2019
• Brand partnerships, as a result, still tend to be scattershot around product placements and other one-offs.
  — Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The Army of the Dead is too scattershot, perhaps too derivative and definitely too long.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 May 2021
• Eventually there will be only scattershot remnants of all the games and practices and team meetings.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• Such a scattershot approach caused an already Covid-weary workforce to be less engaged in a project amid competing challenges.
  — London School Of Economics, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• To some critics, the resulting effect is scattershot and a narrative mess.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 12 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024