shooting match
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It's a slippery slope from a shooting match along the lines of the film "The Favourite," to angrily then grudgingly working together, then to making out in the wreckage of a plane.
From Salon • Jan. 11, 2022
And with that comes the whole existential shooting match, the gnawing knowledge of mortality, the endless thrum of fear and futility, the tears on a small face smeared with melted Maltesers.
From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2018
Boeheim and Co. run the whole shooting match, and no matter what they do, you can’t run ’em out of town unless they miss March Madness three straight times.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2016
Gideon needs his version of “What Say You Meg,” the song that currently gives the whole shooting match to the other guy.
From Chicago Tribune • Jun. 26, 2014
He knew that every year the team had a chance of going to State and had won the whole shooting match four times since 1964.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
