How to Use skeet in a Sentence

skeet

noun
  • The new Gold Reserve is a beauty of a gun that will play in the uplands or on the skeet field.
    Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Caitlin Connor is one of the best skeet shooters in the United States.
    Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Anyone can go to Hawaii to surf, but how about shooting skeet?
    Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2021
  • There are 14 skeet fields, and 14 pistol and rifle ranges too.
    Field & Stream, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Its roots went back to a private skeet shooting club run by the William Schmidt family in the 1880s.
    Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • It's also has a trunk big enough to hold a skeet tournament.
    John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The property has a trap and skeet shooting range, a stocked 8-acre lake with dock and a polo field.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The team set out to solve a problem facing, of all people, skeet shooters.
    Krista Torralva, ExpressNews.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Shot skeet for the first time yesterday, went fly fishing.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The guns are excellent, and trap shooters, skeet shooters, and hunters loved them.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 5 May 2020
  • The baseballs Tony Beasley threw to him were, in fact, kept in a humidor instead of baked into skeet.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 12 July 2021
  • Vincent Hancock became the first skeet shooter to win three gold medals, giving the U.S. a sweep.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 2021
  • By 1971, the property had a motel, Western-style saloon and café, a swimming pool, rodeo, and a trap and skeet range.
    Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Keller drove an old police car, shoveled horse manure at Urbanchek’s barn and shot trap and skeet.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2022
  • That makes people like me, who normally carry enough shells to stage a skeet match for a small army, quite happy.
    Michael Dickerson, Outdoor Life, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Hancock has been the world’s best skeet shooter, winning two Olympic golds, four world championships and six World Cup events.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
  • Hancock has been the world's best skeet shooter, winning two Olympic golds, four world championships and six World Cup events.
    CBS News, 26 July 2021
  • Two shotgun events, two American golds, one sweet skeet sweep.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
  • Elizabeth is not into athletics but shows horses and can shoot skeet with the best of them.
    Kyle Neddenriep, Indianapolis Star, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Jim was an avid hunter who loved fishing and enjoyed his weekly skeet shoots with Bill Schwarm, who predeceased him in 2012.
    courant.com, 24 June 2018
  • That means leaning into some of the eye-rolling terms that users are insisting on, including skeets.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • At the time, the city passed a law allowing skeet shooting at private country clubs at the request of Kirtland Country Club.
    James Ewinger, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Two others members of the Olympic team — Kozeniesky and skeet shooter Vinny Hancock — also teach the sport.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Deputies responding to a skeet shooting report discovered pellets on the roof of a barn.
    Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Kim Rhode, a 37-year-old double trap and skeet shooter, became the first woman to medal in six consecutive Olympic Games.
    Prachi Gupta, Cosmopolitan, 30 Nov. 2016
  • Around 2 million Model 12s found their way into sportsman’s hands for hunting, skeet, and trap.
    John Gordon, Outdoor Life, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Outdoor amenities include a soccer field, a grass tennis court and room for skeet shooting.
    Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 21 July 2021
  • Guests can bowl or play croquet, fish or go skeet shooting, ride horses or learn falconry.
    Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Take, for example, skeet-shooting in the Olympics, which used to be a mixed gender competition — until a woman won the Gold medal in 1992.
    Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Besides the trout pond, the club also offers a rifle and pistol shooting area, archery, a skeet range, and private land hunting on the property.
    Annie Gentile, Courant Community, 17 May 2017

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