How to Use shoot-out in a Sentence
shoot-out
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The shoot-out with the Libyans is replaced by a plutonium mishap, and the dog is gone, too.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
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Boasting all the one-liners, shoot-outs, and stunts one would expect from the genre — all grounded in the seedy world of the '70s L.A.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2024
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He later was killed by the Oakland Police in a shoot-out.
—Gayle Fleming, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
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But the sequence in the middle, an apartment-set shoot-out, posed a problem.
—Vulture, 31 Mar. 2023
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The script called for Baldwin’s character, an outlaw named Harland Rust, to prepare for a shoot-out in the chapel.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
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Anybody knows that ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is really just a song about a shoot-out between us and the police.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2023
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One of the thieves was later wounded by a police officer in a shoot-out at the Les Halles shopping center, roughly a mile-and-a-half away.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 3 May 2023
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The shoot-out had been nervy so far, Sweden matching the United States miss for miss, goal for goal—from newcomers and seasoned players alike.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
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Police involved in an active shoot-out with a suspect in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
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But what struck me was the talking black cat and the killer clown having a shoot-out with the KGB, bullets flying everywhere, and, impossibly, no one getting hit.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
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But after a controversial shoot-out, Givens is sent home to Harlan County.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
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Police used parts of their house for cover during the firefight, and drove an armored vehicle through the backyard, damaging parts of the property on the way to the shoot-out, Chhoeun said.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2024
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Yet there are enough big, better-than-decent movie moments, from shoot-outs to impromptu elevator sing-alongs, that not even a small screen can dilute.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
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Things end, naturally, with a galloping shoot-out on horseback.
—Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
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After dispatching a penalty in regular time, Troost-Ekong made no mistake during the subsequent shoot-out to help send his side into the final in Abidjan.
—Callum Sutherland, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
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His opening campaign rally was in Waco, Texas, amid the 30th anniversary of a 51-day federal siege of a religious cult after the largest shoot-out in US law enforcement history.
—WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
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But this is really about the rush of watching Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt making goo-goo eyes at each other in between the occasional explosions, high-pursuit car chases, shoot-outs and industry in-jokes.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
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There is, unfortunately, a lot of violence there, so the show gave us the opportunity for some really spectacular action sequences: there are a lot of car chases, quite a lot of shoot-outs, fights.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2023
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Her story ends in an epic — and tragic — shoot-out, as the survivors are attacked by a herd of clickers, which is the show’s name for the terrifying former humans who are now controlled by a parasitic fungus that was mutated by global warming.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
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Meanwhile, shoot-outs between ethnic Armenians and ethnic Azeris in Nagorno-Karabakh sparked violence elsewhere.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
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But, just as Raylan himself has got a lot more going on beneath his unflappable gunslinger exterior, Justified was always considerably more than its satisfying shoot-outs.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
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