shooting match
Example Sentences
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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
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
The Battle of Largs petered out into a long distance and sporadic shooting match.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2012
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
