How to Use shooting gallery in a Sentence

shooting gallery

noun
  • In wartime, the Black Sea could become a shooting gallery.
    David Axe, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Tytoń was on the wrong end of a Nashville shooting gallery.
    Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The bowling alley was used as a shooting gallery when the building housed a sporting goods store.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Indeed, the Earth sits in a cosmic shooting gallery, and big rocks from space have pummeled the planet for millions of years.
    Don Lincoln, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The city and nearby villages have become a shooting gallery for artillery.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Past events have included a squirt gun boat race, ghost bowling, pumpkin golf and a Nerf shooting gallery.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The Spurs were down by nine points after Curry’s first-quarter shooting gallery display.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2021
  • But this wasn't a shooting gallery interrupted by wild train sequences and epic climbs up mountains.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022
  • But perhaps to avoid any charges of prurience, Richard Greene lets a stream of prostitutes and lovers flow through the book as one-dimensional as shapes in a shooting gallery.
    Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Family members and attendees say the party for the nephew of the homeowner turned into a shooting gallery.
    CBS News, 24 May 2021
  • This was back when comedy was a shooting gallery rather than a self-pleasuring circle of Chuck Schumer stenographers.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The design brings to life the musical’s instigating image of a fairground shooting gallery.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
  • This is a revenge thriller in which the dramatic points, other than the celebration of military fellowship, are those of a shooting gallery.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • Twelve thousand years ago is nothing in cosmic time and the solar system remains a shooting gallery of comets, asteroids and other ordnance.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Park admission also includes an 18-hole miniature golf course, arcade with video games and skeeball, a shooting gallery and horseshoes.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The farm’s weekend Harvest Festival include a U-pick pumpkin patch, corn maze, petting zoo, nature trail, corn hole toss, bounce house and a paintball shooting gallery.
    oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021
  • All ages can try a variety of carnival games, including Kiddieland Kats, ring toss, go fish, shooting gallery, football frenzy, and more.
    Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2019
  • From a luxury spa and a Japanese steakhouse grill to arcade games and a sound-proof shooting gallery, Casteel Creek truly has something for everyone.
    Mike Rose, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Mike Brunson runs the ranch alongside Lynn Brunson and has constructed and designed newer areas of the ranch including a hamster-wheel style play area, a gaga ball pit, a paintball shooting gallery and mini-golf.
    Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Living inside a shooting gallery seemed to capture the insecurity of life in America.
    Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
  • And, by the absence of powered armor, makes the movie version of Starship Troopers a particularly pointless shooting gallery sort of exercise.
    Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2018
  • The claim that the shooting gallery consisted of comets, however, is another controversial aspect of the theory.
    Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2022
  • There’s also a pumpkin patch, zip line, giant slides, pedal carts, wagon rides, Zorbing, petting zoo, pig races, jumping pillow, paintball shooting gallery, extreme air ride and more.
    Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Irate that injection drug users were turning BART station hallways into shooting galleries.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2018
  • Another setting shows the exterior of shooting gallery where heroin users might typically go to use.
    Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Wildsong technical director Shaun Lim designed the show’s moody lighting and plays the musical’s shooting gallery proprietor with a shamanic quality.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • That basically requires flooding the region with shooters and sensors, most of which are available today or nearly available today, that can essentially turn the Taiwan Strait into a shooting gallery.
    CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The first buildings were fully functional businesses, including a motel, an ice cream parlor, a shooting gallery and the Red Dog Saloon, according to Pioneertown’s website.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Beer gardens, dance halls, dime museums and shooting galleries proliferated, and love, whatever your inclination, was for sale.
    Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
  • The public daylong celebration included activities that included rubber band shooting gallery, a crayon-coloring station and living history demonstrations.
    Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 17 Aug. 2019

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