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move quickly and violently
The car tore down the street
He came charging into my office
How To Use shoot down In A Sentence
- Mr. Noble says he would shoot down any suggestion that Interpol should head up an international antiterrorist squad. Making Interpol Relevant Again
- Stingers can shoot down aircraft, including civilian jetliners, flying at low altitudes.
- Shoot down all who want to escape!
- I’ve seen many a good title bogged down with comments like: ‘it’s not real if it’s not from Japan’ Perhaps if some authors were quick on the trigger to shoot down that nonsense, immature reviewers might dwindle away…but alas, this is asking for trouble, because even those truly critical of your work will avoiding saying so for fear Rice-Style retribution. Deliver Me From Temptation, Temptation Being Amazon « Whatever
- At the meeting Smith made some objection to my plan which I was able to shoot down in flames with no trouble.
- Nevertheless, he somehow bribed his way out of hospital to shoot down an impudent intruder strafing his base.
- The news of Corvette 03's shoot down arrived in the JRCC at a busy time; it was a hectic night with numerous reports of aircraft down and emergency beacons being detected.
- Accomplishing all this with anything like the efficiency American forces have enjoyed since the Vietnam War depends on owning the sky, which means having air-to-air hunter-killers that can shoot down enemy planes and destroy surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites before the rest of the fleet takes to the sky. The Last Ace
- But nothing, absolutely *nothing* about Crowe's character throughout the movie convinced me that he was the person who would, at the very last minute, turn on a dime, shoot down his own gang and then throw himself in jail out of some weird sense of nobility. 3:10 to Yuma
- Shoot down all who want to escape!
