SHOT in a Sentence

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For SHOT, below is one of 334 sentences:
As the shrill words shot out Ethan heard a tap on the door, which he had drawn shut when he turned back from the threshold.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHOT
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shot
 n.  photographic view or exposure
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As the shrill words shot out Ethan heard a tap on the door, which he had drawn shut when he turned back from the threshold.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  There was a last instant when the air shot past him like millions of fiery wires; and then the elm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  It was during one of these brawls that Stuart Tarleton had shot Cade Calvert and Tony Fontaine had shot Brent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Her volatile spirits shot up from deepest depression to excited happiness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Scarlett shot a look of sharp suspicion at her, but Mammy's broad face carried only a look of innocence and of regret that Scarlett was not the lady Melanie Hamilton was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  And, of course, her brother called him out, and Mr. Butler said he'd rather be shot than marry a stupid fool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  A thousand incoherent thoughts shot through her mind, and she could not catch a single one to mold into a word.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  At least they hadn't shot each other.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  Tore the horse's-- I shot the horse myself, poor creature.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  They shot higher and higher and widened rapidly into a broad expanse of red before her terrified eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Torrents of sparks shot to the sky and descended slowly, lazily, through blood-colored clouds of smoke.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  Tell her Ah git her a hawse effen Ah gits shot fer it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  Some day I'll tell you with embellishments just where and how I stole him and how narrowly I missed getting shot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  As Rhett jerked the horse's head and turned him into another street, another deafening explosion tore the air and a monstrous skyrocket of flame and smoke shot up in the west.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  Even in her frenzy, Scarlett wished she had Melanie with her, Melly with her quiet voice, Melly who was so brave the day she shot the Yankee.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (124 in 9 pages)
16  Saivonsac shot the entire film with a hand-held camera.
17  I took the lens cap off my camera and waited for a good shot.
18  He was shot down over Denmark and spent three years in a prison camp.
19  Someone took a shot at the car.
20  The shot was clearly audible in the silence.
21  The photographers had already shot a dozen rolls of film.
22  The new employee was useless and so the management got shot of him after only a week.
23  Or, analysts say, it could be a cheap shot by an employee at an Apple competitor.
24  He said many of the men who were shot for cowardice were in fact suffering from shell shock.
25  The film opens with a shot of a climber dangling from a precipice.
26  The film was shot on location in France.
27  If Tom hadn't goofed and missed that shot, we'd have won the game.
28  His shot on goal rebounded off the post.
29  He had only one shot at goal.
30  Shaw took a shot at the goal from the halfway line, but missed.