How to Use buckshot in a Sentence

buckshot

noun

• Stun the bear with the buckshot, then follow up with a hard-hitting slug.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 21 Oct. 2020
• My father was lying on the floor with a lot of buckshot wounds to his body.
  — Jared Boyd, AL.com, 13 June 2017
• The size of the shot varies, from smaller birdshot to larger buckshot.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
• The second, a load of buckshot, ripped open his abdomen.
  — Thomas Peele, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2017
• His back leg had a wound and buckshot pieces embedded in it.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
• The gun, filled with a type of buckshot, was designed to send the ammo flying if triggered.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• Buttons from a Union jacket were also found with the remains of the man who died from buckshot.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 21 June 2018
• The skeletons of more than 50 boys were unearthed, rib cages blasted by buckshot.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 11 July 2019
• The cowboys are loading their guns with dispassion and buckshot.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 23 June 2022
• In the tale, the frog lost a jumping contest after being secretly force-fed a handful of buckshot.
  — Joe Dworetzky, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• He was knocked down by a blast of buckshot at close range, witnesses said, and possibly by a canister of tear gas.
  — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• The lumberman crowded in next, becoming the second white man to catch a fatal load of buckshot.
  — Craig Pittman, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
• Creative Quest, then, is the result of Thompson's neural buckshot.
  — Clay Skipper, GQ, 18 Apr. 2018
• Bennu is just one in a million or more asteroids that speed through the solar system like buckshot.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• Soldiers often fire tear gas and buckshot into the crowds of protesters.
  — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• The police, under Maduro’s command, have used tear gas, along with rubber bullets and buckshot, to beat back the opposition on the streets.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 13 May 2017
• Four slug shell casings and an unfired buckshot round were found by a gas pump, while six 10mm shell casings were discovered where the Impala had been.
  — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2021
• The show frequently strikes its targets, but only by spraying so much satirical buckshot that some of it is bound to hit.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• The doctors who tried to save his eyes said that 52 rubber buckshot pellets hit his face, 16 of them flying directly into his eyes.
  — Stefano Pozzebon and Anggy Polanco, CNN, 17 July 2019
• Also found was the victim's Timberland boot, which was damaged by buckshot.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The frights of nightmares and nightmarish fiction cannot be dissipated by a round of buckshot; to flee them is to run into them at every turn.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• Considine said there have been no reports of injuries but there has been reports of buckshot hitting houses.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2022
• The ammunition issued for the riot guns was lethal buckshot, shells used by deer hunters that contain nine to 12 pellets as large as .38 caliber pistol slugs.
  — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
• Aluminium, nails, buckshot and receipts for purchasing rice cookers were found at the scene of the bombing, Wasisto said.
  — Holly Yan and Yosef Riadi, CNN, 26 May 2017
• The multiple wounds were caused by buckshot, a type of ammunition that contains multiple pellets in one shell, the report said.
  — azcentral, 24 Feb. 2020
• That unrealized buckshot threat turned out to be the peak of strained relations between car interests and park leaders.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Oct. 2021
• The cannon also can be loaded with buckshot to destroy the device, and an X-ray attachment allows a technician to get a better idea of what lurks inside a box.
  — Amy Lavalley, Post-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2017
• Hawks shows how to be as funny as a crutch—and the romantic hero turns out to be a poetry-spouting young dandy (James Caan) on his own vengeful mission, who scatters his buckshot widely.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• The size of the shot varies, with smaller birdshot less likely to kill or incapacitate a human, while larger buckshot is more useful for home defense.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2018
• The size of the shot varies, with smaller birdshot less likely to kill or incapacitate a human, while larger buckshot is more useful for home defense.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024