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sharpshooter

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[ UK /ʃˈɑːpʃuːtɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɑɹpˌʃutɝ, ˈʃɑɹpʃutɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone skilled in shooting
  2. a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters
  3. 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.
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