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sharpshooter

noun as in expert with gun

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The governor’s executive style, however, wouldn’t look so bad if the newspapers would buy the line that “sharpshooters” saved lives instead of ending them, or that inmates were slitting throats with abandon.

Some basketball lifers can easily grasp the system’s value for a young player or a shooter with distinct problems in their shot, but they may struggle to see how it could help elite sharpshooters.

Former Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce had Bogdanović primarily coming off the bench early in the season, and the sharpshooter just looked lost.

Insects called sharpshooters fling pee as they feed — at up to six times the acceleration an astronaut feels on takeoff.

He qualified as “sharpshooter” on the M1911A1-45 ACP handgun in 1994.

In a few moments, the enemy sharpshooter will have Ali in his crosshairs and take his shot.

The pro-Sarkozy conservative daily Le Figaro calls Royal “a sharpshooter.”

We were trying to locate a sharpshooter in our front, who had become very troublesome by the accuracy of his aim.

The regular drove his team about fifteen miles a day on the average, while the sharpshooter could cover twenty miles and more.

It was fired by a sharpshooter on our own side, who had mistaken her for one of the advancing Rebels.

Fools, if you would find the bullet of a sharpshooter in these woods, you must look in the object, and not around it!

I was some sharpshooter, gals, he added proudly, patting the stock of the heavy gun.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sharpshooter, such as: marksman, sniper, and rifleman.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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