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
These vaporous toys you watch me make, That shoot ahead, pause, turn and break— Some glide far out like sailing ships, Some weak ones fail me at my lips.
From Fairies and Fusiliers by Graves, Robert
