shoot through

Example Sentences

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He added this was not an infection which would "shoot through the population", it was "not Covid", and he expected the outbreak to die out in the coming days.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

But one structural engineer told me that the greater risk in most facilities is horizontal, not vertical—not that a vehicle would fall through the floor, but that it would shoot through a barrier.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2025

Monika Mitchell was the director for one of them, and she did a location shoot through my house.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024

The Peacock series“Orlando Bloom: To the Edge” sees the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star shoot through the sky thousands of feet above the ground, dive into a deep sinkhole and rock climb hundreds of feet.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024

Those words shoot through me, and I constantly look at it to check this is real.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak