How to Use shooting gallery in a Sentence

shooting gallery

noun

• In wartime, the Black Sea could become a shooting gallery.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• Tytoń was on the wrong end of a Nashville shooting gallery.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2021
• The bowling alley was used as a shooting gallery when the building housed a sporting goods store.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2021
• Indeed, the Earth sits in a cosmic shooting gallery, and big rocks from space have pummeled the planet for millions of years.
  — Don Lincoln, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
• The city and nearby villages have become a shooting gallery for artillery.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Past events have included a squirt gun boat race, ghost bowling, pumpkin golf and a Nerf shooting gallery.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Oct. 2017
• The Spurs were down by nine points after Curry’s first-quarter shooting gallery display.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2021
• But this wasn't a shooting gallery interrupted by wild train sequences and epic climbs up mountains.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022
• But perhaps to avoid any charges of prurience, Richard Greene lets a stream of prostitutes and lovers flow through the book as one-dimensional as shapes in a shooting gallery.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• Family members and attendees say the party for the nephew of the homeowner turned into a shooting gallery.
  — CBS News, 24 May 2021
• This was back when comedy was a shooting gallery rather than a self-pleasuring circle of Chuck Schumer stenographers.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
• The design brings to life the musical’s instigating image of a fairground shooting gallery.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• This is a revenge thriller in which the dramatic points, other than the celebration of military fellowship, are those of a shooting gallery.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
• Twelve thousand years ago is nothing in cosmic time and the solar system remains a shooting gallery of comets, asteroids and other ordnance.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 3 Nov. 2021
• Park admission also includes an 18-hole miniature golf course, arcade with video games and skeeball, a shooting gallery and horseshoes.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2021
• The farm’s weekend Harvest Festival include a U-pick pumpkin patch, corn maze, petting zoo, nature trail, corn hole toss, bounce house and a paintball shooting gallery.
  — oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021
• Meanwhile, all over London drugs gangs are strong arming pensioners out of their council flats and using them for flop houses and shooting galleries.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• All ages can try a variety of carnival games, including Kiddieland Kats, ring toss, go fish, shooting gallery, football frenzy, and more.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2019
• From a luxury spa and a Japanese steakhouse grill to arcade games and a sound-proof shooting gallery, Casteel Creek truly has something for everyone.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2020
• Mike Brunson runs the ranch alongside Lynn Brunson and has constructed and designed newer areas of the ranch including a hamster-wheel style play area, a gaga ball pit, a paintball shooting gallery and mini-golf.
  — Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2019
• Living inside a shooting gallery seemed to capture the insecurity of life in America.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
• The haunted mini-golf operation also includes a shooting gallery and an arcade.
  — Ted O'Neil, Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2020
• And, by the absence of powered armor, makes the movie version of Starship Troopers a particularly pointless shooting gallery sort of exercise.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2018
• The claim that the shooting gallery consisted of comets, however, is another controversial aspect of the theory.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2022
• There’s also a pumpkin patch, zip line, giant slides, pedal carts, wagon rides, Zorbing, petting zoo, pig races, jumping pillow, paintball shooting gallery, extreme air ride and more.
  — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
• Irate that injection drug users were turning BART station hallways into shooting galleries.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2018
• Another setting shows the exterior of shooting gallery where heroin users might typically go to use.
  — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Wildsong technical director Shaun Lim designed the show’s moody lighting and plays the musical’s shooting gallery proprietor with a shamanic quality.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
• That basically requires flooding the region with shooters and sensors, most of which are available today or nearly available today, that can essentially turn the Taiwan Strait into a shooting gallery.
  — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022
• The first buildings were fully functional businesses, including a motel, an ice cream parlor, a shooting gallery and the Red Dog Saloon, according to Pioneertown’s website.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024