How to Use one-shot in a Sentence

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• All these one-shots are part of a whole movie sequence.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Crossroads turned out to be a one-shot fluke for her movie career.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
• Getting close for a one-shot kill has always been the challenge.
  — Brad Fenson, Outdoor Life, 1 Nov. 2023
• After that, Cobbs had one-shot roles on the most notable TV dramas of their time.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 3 July 2024
• The four other four one-shots will be released one-by-one on a monthly basis.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 June 2024
• Years later, some would claim that the magazine was a lark, that it was intended to be a one-shot deal.
  — Sean Howe, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023
• So Bradley entered the final round with a one-shot lead over Scott and just two ahead of 24-year-old rising star Ludvig Åberg.
  — Brody Miller, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
• The second is in the last mission where there’s a segment with a bunch of Thresher ships which will one-shot you with rockets unless you are locked to 30.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Conversions would produce plenty of one-shot income, but not the long-term cash stream brought by high rents.
  — Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
• Dustin Johnson, with a one-shot lead playing the final hole at Whistling Straits, is penalized two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker on the last hole.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• While that could be viewed as a one-shot waiver to resolve the A’s stadium odyssey, a precedent has nonetheless been set.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Unfortunately, Camp David was proposed as a one-shot deal, make it or break it.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Horschel, who started the final round with a one-shot lead in his bid to win his first major, dropped back around the turn and birdied his last three holes for a 68 for his best finish in a major.
  — Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024
• Homa, who grew up about 30 miles away, attended this tournament as a kid and then won it two years ago, started with a one-shot lead and stayed step-for-step with Rahm.
  — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2023
• Within minutes of the film’s start, Maxine looks straight to camera in a brief but genius homage to the famous one-shot monologue that ended West’s last movie.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 June 2024
• Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?
  — Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
• Johnson had entered the day at Portland’s Waverley Country Club clinging to a one-shot lead at 4 under par.
  — Jodom, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• The Mad Fold-In was invented as a would-be one-shot in 1964 — a sendup of magazine fold-outs popularized in news magazines and Playboy.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• Some cocktails take weeks of trial and error—particularly at Death & Co., at the time perhaps the most creative and precise cocktail bar in the country—but the Kingston Negroni was a one-shot hit.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 6 July 2024
• Clark’s historic round at the famous links course in California included two eagles and nine birdies, giving him a one-shot lead ahead of Sweden’s Ludvig Åberg.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• The movie, which released in the U.K. in January 2022, used an anxiety-inducing one-shot technique for the entire feature, heightening the intensity of the frenzied kitchen scenes.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 29 June 2023
• There is focus on the abuse Erik and Lyle faced from their father, including a one-shot episode that is an entire conversation about Erik describing, in extremely graphic detail, the nature of his abuse.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
• The water’s edge quickly became a hive of activity as players, caddies, camera crew and a rules official swarmed the area where McIlroy subsequently made his one-shot penalty drop.
  — Jack Bantock, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
• The one-shot nature and lack of an aiming interface really contributes to a general lack of confidence in the temperature sensor.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2023
• The one-shot, one-direction scheme uses a two-step approach—measuring the object, and then analyzing and recreating it virtually.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2023
• Advertisement That show, however, was a one-shot deal charting a particular artistic strain.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Apple had just announced Siri, a virtual assistant that promised to deliver one-shot answers in casual conversation, and the Google brass smelled a huge competitive threat: Siri could eat up their search traffic.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
• That’s on full display in the phenomenal one-shot opening sequence, which begins with Nemesis attacking Jill in her collapsing apartment building and ends with a spectacular flameout.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 9 Mar. 2023
• Johnson’s consecutive birdies fueled a 5-under-par 67 that catapulted her into a one-shot lead over Catriona Matthew heading into Sunday’s final round.
  — Jodom, oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023
• Experts suggest that addressing productivity doesn’t have a one-shot solution.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune Europe, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Feb 2025