Example Sentences

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Shootouts involve strictly individual play, not team-wide strategy.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023

Shootouts and penalty shots are similar structurally but different functionally.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022

Shootouts weren’t yet introduced to the NHL — ties were eliminated in 2005 — but it was required to determine the outcome 25 years later to the day.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2018

But at the time Rydell took his dig, Major League Soccer had no ties: Shootouts decided games until 2000, when the league phased them out in response to American fans’ tendencies.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2016

We've put in a lap or two there, including our just-completed 125 and 250 Shootouts.

From Time Magazine Archive