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UK
/ʃˈɑːpʃuːtɐ/
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[ US /ˈʃɑɹpˌʃutɝ, ˈʃɑɹpʃutɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɑɹpˌʃutɝ, ˈʃɑɹpʃutɝ/ ]
NOUN
- someone skilled in shooting
- a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters
- an athlete noted for accurate aim
How To Use sharpshooter In A Sentence
- Highly skilled Sharpshooter with scoped M 1903 Rifle, effective against all Infantry. Can use camouflage ability.
- But on the last trip US sharpshooters blew out the vehicle's tires.
- That is to say 'load and fire', or 'sharpshooter'. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
- The violence erupted later in the afternoon, and it's very clear that a sharpshooter was the one responsible for killing one of the protesters near the airport entrance. Democracy Now!
- It's a measure of Coach Hiro's grasp of the game that the Knights won their league without the presence of a tall sharpshooter, which is what Hiro was some two decades ago. Starbulletin Headlines
- They were watched by scores of police sharpshooters and commandos deployed on roofs and sidewalks around the mansion.
- A correspondent from General Sherman's army says that the Whitworth rifle in use by the Southern skirmishers and sharpshooters is a weapon greatly to be feared, as persons nearly a mile and a half from the Foreign and Colonial Intelligence
- Gortney said that the sharpshooters were able to pick off their targets with a single shot because they were “extremely, extremely well-trained”. Speaking Like A Pirate « Tales from the Reading Room
- ‘They were sharpshooters,’ Armstrong said later.
- The sharpshooter kept the West in the game down the stretch, nailing a couple jumpers to keep the score close.