shoot ahead
Example Sentences
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When reporters asked Kerry and Zarif about Yemen during a brief photo shoot ahead of the talks, both men declined to answer.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2015
You're going to need one or two fish that'll be bigger than the rest to really shoot ahead in the competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
When fired, they will shoot ahead and vanish with blinding speed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Planets course around the sky throughout the year, but every so often they stop, move backward, and then shoot ahead once more.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Either a little more skillful steering on the part of Mr. Switzer, or a more favorable course enabled his sled to shoot ahead, just at the finish, and he won the race.
From The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film by Laura Lee Hope
