long shot

How To Use long shot In A Sentence

• It was a long shot but might be worth the effort, at least to ascertain the facts. Broken Lives
• Three times I can remember it: the ending tunnel silhouette in "The Third Man," falling rubble jarringly breaking up a scene (by splicing the foreground and midground) in of all things "Duck Soup," and noticing a borrowed composition from "La Dolce Vida" (namely, a long shot where multiple people were running and the camera followed them) showing up in "Little Miss Sunshine. Reverse Storyboarding
• It was a long shot but might be worth the effort, at least to ascertain the facts. Broken Lives
• He could be glimpsed in the dedications of at least 40 books, from Berton Roueche's true stories of medical detection to Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," where he was apostrophized as "lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific" - that is, a writer's editor. A Lover Of The Long Shot
• I thought about meeting a handsome stranger but it seemed a bit of a long shot.
• Pundits say Drobac is a long shot at best, but the cash-strapped challenger vows to defy the oddsmakers.
• Mark was able to get a long shot, but missed, so sat down while the shikari climbed the peaks around to try and find the oorial again. Adventures in Many Lands
• They are in the position of the horse player who bet two dollars on a long shot, then parlayed his bets and kept winning, race after race, until he bet the entire wad, $10,000, on a 10-1 shot in the last race.
• At the start, Miller's victory was not assured - in fact, it seemed a long shot to many who had watched her pound podiums and insult fellow lawmakers.
• The next-to-last shot of the series depicted the camera slowly panning back from a close-up to a long shot of the four inmates.