How to Use shotgun start in a Sentence

shotgun start

noun
  • So, that was my shotgun start in doing comedy with Amy Schumer.
    — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
  • Tickets are $250 for the tournament, which will have a noon shotgun start.
    — Staff Reports, NOLA.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The format features a 12-team, 48-player field with a shotgun start.
    — Seth Vertelney, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
  • The games begin at noon with a shotgun start and conclude with a dinner announcing the raffle winner of a car.
    — Cynthia Fernandez, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
  • There is also no doubt that Thursday ushered the shotgun start for a citywide purge and binge of emotions … in that order.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 8 June 2018
  • The shotgun start and 54-hole competition.
    — ABC News, 5 May 2026
  • But the tourney is canceled during the shotgun start when thousands of protesters show up as the golfers are addressing their tee shots.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The 54-hole tournament has no cut and a shotgun start, meaning everyone starts at the same time on a different hole.
    — Rob Harris, ajc, 8 June 2022
  • The shotgun start begins at noon, and the event includes dinner for participating golfs and non-golfers and a live and online auction.
    — Lynn Petrak, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018
  • As music thumped across the fan festival and 12 teams of four tee’d off for a shotgun start, 5-year-old Tanner Austen tried for a hole-in-one at one of the kids’ events.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022

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