How to Use shooting gallery in a Sentence

shooting gallery

noun
  • The bowling alley was used as a shooting gallery when the building housed a sporting goods store.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The city and nearby villages have become a shooting gallery for artillery.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The crowd-pleasing rally of slice and dice, topspin and dropshots are a mere cameo in a shooting gallery.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • But this wasn't a shooting gallery interrupted by wild train sequences and epic climbs up mountains.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Scoreless at halftime Nashville had itself quite a shooting gallery in the first half.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The Spurs were down by nine points after Curry’s first-quarter shooting gallery display.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Indeed, the Earth sits in a cosmic shooting gallery, and big rocks from space have pummeled the planet for millions of years.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Most activations cost two coins, but some like the shooting gallery cost up to four, meaning that the most things anyone could play in a day caps out at five.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Sprinkled across the map are shooting galleries, gliding challenges, treasure hunts, and other mini-games.
    — PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Family members and attendees say the party for the nephew of the homeowner turned into a shooting gallery.
    — CBS News, 24 May 2021
  • The design brings to life the musical’s instigating image of a fairground shooting gallery.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The haunted mini-golf operation also includes a shooting gallery and an arcade.
    — Ted O'Neil, Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Twelve thousand years ago is nothing in cosmic time and the solar system remains a shooting gallery of comets, asteroids and other ordnance.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 3 Nov. 2021
  • This was back when comedy was a shooting gallery rather than a self-pleasuring circle of Chuck Schumer stenographers.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Park admission also includes an 18-hole miniature golf course, arcade with video games and skeeball, a shooting gallery and horseshoes.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Another setting shows the exterior of shooting gallery where heroin users might typically go to use.
    — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Meanwhile, all over London drugs gangs are strong arming pensioners out of their council flats and using them for flop houses and shooting galleries.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • This is a revenge thriller in which the dramatic points, other than the celebration of military fellowship, are those of a shooting gallery.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • Living inside a shooting gallery seemed to capture the insecurity of life in America.
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
  • But perhaps to avoid any charges of prurience, Richard Greene lets a stream of prostitutes and lovers flow through the book as one-dimensional as shapes in a shooting gallery.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • All ages can try a variety of carnival games, including Kiddieland Kats, ring toss, go fish, shooting gallery, football frenzy, and more.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2019
  • The claim that the shooting gallery consisted of comets, however, is another controversial aspect of the theory.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Irate that injection drug users were turning BART station hallways into shooting galleries.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2018
  • Beer gardens, dance halls, dime museums and shooting galleries proliferated, and love, whatever your inclination, was for sale.
    — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
  • There’s also a pumpkin patch, zip line, giant slides, pedal carts, wagon rides, Zorbing, petting zoo, pig races, jumping pillow, paintball shooting gallery, extreme air ride and more.
    — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The farm’s weekend Harvest Festival include a U-pick pumpkin patch, corn maze, petting zoo, nature trail, corn hole toss, bounce house and a paintball shooting gallery.
    — oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Mechanically, most encounters are just a series of shooting galleries, which doesn’t really play to Battlefield’s strengths.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • From a luxury spa and a Japanese steakhouse grill to arcade games and a sound-proof shooting gallery, Casteel Creek truly has something for everyone.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2020
  • And, by the absence of powered armor, makes the movie version of Starship Troopers a particularly pointless shooting gallery sort of exercise.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2018
  • Wildsong technical director Shaun Lim designed the show’s moody lighting and plays the musical’s shooting gallery proprietor with a shamanic quality.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022

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