How to Use shooting in a Sentence

shooting

noun

• The plot involves the shooting death of a drug dealer named C.C. Cox.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• There is a fair amount of arrow shooting over the course of the show’s eight episodes, but Sirisco is always on the wrong end of it.
  — Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2024
• Carr said the shooting was an accident and Capers did not mean to shoot the boy.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• The Celtics don’t have a reliable shooting guard off the pick-and-roll, or a guard who can drive into the paint with speed.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• In the video of the shooting, Leigh fires at Galloway, striking her in the head, then, after the mother falls to the ground, Leigh shoots her again in the back.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
• No charges were filed against the officers involved in the Locke shooting.
  — Stanley Nelson, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Now he’s being asked to play his role, to be the point guard and provide some outside shooting.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• The shooting sent the busy area into chaos and brought a large police presence, shutting down the block.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Mar. 2024
• The Grizzlies made 8 of 16 attempts from 3-point land, pulling away in the second quarter with the help of some sharp shooting.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2023
• Five live rounds were found on set following the shooting.
  — Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2024
• Harmon said her daughters couldn’t get out of bed for a week after the shooting.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• During my junior year, the Columbine shooting took place, far away.
  — Clare Beams, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
• Hield didn't have a great game off the bench either, finishing with eight points on 2 of 9 shooting.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Mar. 2023
• The youngest victim of the drive-by shooting is 3 years old and the oldest is 19, according to Fort Worth police.
  — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 May 2024
• Another woman, police say, was in the home at the time of the shooting but was not injured.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
• Holloman, who was 16 at the time of the fatal shooting, faces the prospect of life in prison at his sentencing Dec. 2.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
• This wasn’t a random act of violence, like the mass shooting on Oct. 25 at a bar and grill in Lewiston, Maine.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Minnesota, which is the best 3-point shooting team in the WNBA, finished 8 of 26.
  — Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2024
• Because of your shooting schedule, the show likely won’t be back on the air until 2024.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
• In the Mountain West championship: four points on 2 of 7 shooting.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Map of the United States with markers in the place where shootings on high school football fields have occurred since Aug. 1.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• The shooting case wrapped up last year with the Canadian crooner heading to prison.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2024
• Great athletes like Liko need something to sustain them through the shooting lulls.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
• The shooting was first recorded on a doorbell camera at 10:56 a.m.
  — Steve Almasy, CNN, 17 May 2023
• Spotting a price tag on a Dyson item is like seeing a shooting star (if the shooting star was a blow-dryer).
  — Annie Blackman, Allure, 21 Oct. 2024
• No one was injured during the second round of shooting.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• Geter’s co-worker was driving them home from work that night when the shooting happened and drove to a nearby 7-Eleven to get help.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2024
• Jones and Pearson protested for gun control in the wake of the Covenant school shooting last month that left three children, three adults, and the shooter dead.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2023
• The best-case result would be 6% fewer shootings in Chicago.
  — Jens Ludwig, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
• Two fatal attacks — a shooting and a stabbing — were reported this week in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, the police said.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024