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

“My body feels like I’m being electrocuted from the inside out. I get these sharp electrical jolts that shoot through my body and my limbs,” Evans said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2024

I lower my shoulder, shoot through the force field, and barrel into the creature with all my body’s strength— just as Dad taught me when he tried and failed to teach me football.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer