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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Research has suggested that one-shot seminars, speeches and sensitivity exercises do little to curb unconscious biases.
— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
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