shot
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The conditions created the perfect situation to observe effects of the shot.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
At the 2024 Sarajevo Film Festival, Payne shot down allegations that he’d lifted major elements of the script from Stephenson’s “Frisco,” calling the accusation “the stupidest thing in the world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Even in the latter stages, Bryan Mbeumo's blistering shot couldn't find its way in.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
"I think we have a shot at doing well. Maybe very well, but you know, pretty well."
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
She’d be about eleven, twelve, and she’d shot up over the summer.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
He had six shots, the joint-most by a Chelsea player in a Premier League match this season, along with a host of other impressive attacking contributions.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
He missed just five of his 12 shots and four of his nine-three-pointers in the opening 12 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Looked lively throughout, having a couple of dangerous-looking shots on goal and two that he scored but were ruled out for offside.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
It would take federal authorities deciding to update this season’s flu shots for Moderna to roll out a newer vaccine later this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
This led to the second and most intriguing agreement—namely, that an interval lasting “a few seconds” occurred between shots.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
“Keep your guns shotted and your powder dry!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Some of the goldseekers fired a salute with shotted guns when, poised on the mountain side, they looked down upon a stream flowing to the northwest.
From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland
The guns were shotted, and we could distinctly see the splash of the marble balls as they dropped into the water.
From Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 by John Auldjo
Its business, however, was to establish a wall of steel and shotted guns between these forces and the German battle fleet at Kiel.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
Cautiously reclosing the window, Sœur Marie descends the steps of her improvised ladder, and takes up the thing that had been tossed in; which she finds to be a letter shotted inside!
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
“Maybe I should stop drop shotting and start winning,” Melzer said with a laugh.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2010
When bass are near a weedy bottom, Lillegard favors vertical jigging or drop shotting above the vegetation.
From Time Magazine Archive
If a hunting-habit be properly cut it will require no shotting, which will be an advantage to your horse in diminishing the weight which he would otherwise have to carry.
From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert
You know my fun is a sort of fizz—there's nothing but a flash—nothing to hurt—no shotting.
From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms
Not being able to aggravate us into shotting our guns, what must he turn to and do but load with stone—and look at that flag!
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
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