How to Use shoot-out in a Sentence

shoot-out

noun
  • The shoot-out with the Libyans is replaced by a plutonium mishap, and the dog is gone, too.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • He later was killed by the Oakland Police in a shoot-out.
    Gayle Fleming, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But the sequence in the middle, an apartment-set shoot-out, posed a problem.
    Vulture, 31 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Police involved in an active shoot-out with a suspect in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • But after a controversial shoot-out, Givens is sent home to Harlan County.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Things end, naturally, with a galloping shoot-out on horseback.
    Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, shoot-outs between ethnic Armenians and ethnic Azeris in Nagorno-Karabakh sparked violence elsewhere.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
  • 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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