How to Use shoot-out in a Sentence

shoot-out

noun
  • Can Maye win a shoot-out in Charm City?
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
  • And she's proven right after the finale shoot-out.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Here's who survived the Netflix film's many shoot-outs and brawls.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The soldiers realize who’s there, and a shoot-out commences.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The suspect was killed days later in a shoot-out with police in Milan.
    — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The rest is a strictly routine pileup of car crashes, shoot-outs and wisecracks.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2024
  • He was killed during a shoot-out in his home state of Jalisco, AP said.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The shoot-out with the Libyans is replaced by a plutonium mishap, and the dog is gone, too.
    — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Nothing felt big enough to film the shoot-out in, to crawl through, to be a Gemstone vacation house.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 May 2025
  • They are believed to have fled on foot following the shoot-out, authorities added.
    — Latoya Gayle, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The actors appeared relieved when England won the stressful shoot-out and were able to get on with their show.
    — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 8 July 2024
  • Many thrillers end with shoot-outs and chases—in this case, a mighty three-car affair, brilliantly staged over a rolling desert highway.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Sunday’s shoot-out was occurring on a narrow street lined with businesses.
    — Edgar H. Clemente, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
  • The finale-episode shoot-out felt like an act of throwing up one’s hands and admitting defeat at the hands of a runaway plot.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2025
  • During a shoot-out, Oseguera Cervantes was injured.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • There’s a massive shoot-out where Alamo and Laurie are both killed, violently.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026
  • More than a dozen yellow evidence markers noted where bullet casings fell during the shoot-out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
  • Shevchenko had to score to keep the shoot-out alive but his effort was tame and Dudek secured his place in Liverpool folklore.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Police involved in an active shoot-out with a suspect in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The film indeed ends in melodramatic fashion, with Nicholson killing Cat in a shoot-out.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Gunfire erupted, and in the shoot-out, Officer Foerster was hit four times and killed.
    — Eric Shawn, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
  • That a cooking gas cannister won’t detonate in error, and spark a shoot-out that breaks the peace permanently.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The eerie minute of film features a brutal shoot-out between multiple characters, and the footage ends with the sounds of bullets being fired.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The events included tug of war, a potato sack race, a soccer shoot-out, a twerk contest and a giant game of Connect 4.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • The movie resembles nothing so much as a classic Western, with the hero outnumbered and outgunned and a big shoot-out at the end.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • There were shoot-outs and arrests, followed quickly by reports of heavy-handed treatment of suspects and, in some cases, of torture.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • Sometimes those folks acquire a gun with the intention of harming others, looking to share their pain or hoping they themselves will be killed in a shoot-out.
    — Anthony Montalto, New York Daily News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Anderson was killed in an unrelated gang shoot-out in May 1998.
    — Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 1 July 2025
  • The trailer, released Wednesday, features an explosive car crash, shoot-outs, and a carry-on bag with an undisclosed weapon.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Yet there are enough big, better-than-decent movie moments, from shoot-outs to impromptu elevator sing-alongs, that not even a small screen can dilute.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023

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