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shooting English

Meaning shooting meaning

What does shooting mean?
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shooting

A shooting is the event of a person shooting another with a gun. The police are looking for the person responsible for the shooting of a well-known lawyer last night.

shooting

(= shot) the act of firing a projectile his shooting was slow but accurate killing someone by gunfire when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies

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Topics shooting topics

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Simple sentences

No more shooting.
A man was shooting from his balcony.
That was the only way we could defend ourselves against all this terrible shooting.
The soldier disdained shooting an unarmed enemy.
The man suddenly started shooting his gun.
The shooting started around noon.
The picture will finish shooting in three days.
We listened to the shooting.
I have seen a shooting star once.
I'll do the shooting.
The shooting victim is alive, but just barely.
I've heard that you can kill werewolves by shooting them with silver bullets.
Every time I practice shooting, I miss the target.
Look, a shooting star!
When you see a shooting star, make a wish.
I just saw a shooting star.
Why am I shooting these guys, tell me, what have they done?
Stop shooting the breeze and get to work!
Look at that shooting star.
Look! There goes a shooting star.
A shooting star dashed through the sky.
This problem certainly requires a solution, but that's like shooting a cannon at sparrows.
If one in one hundred rounds does not hit the target, it's not first-class shooting.
Tom and Mary were just shooting the breeze.
Tom has been accused of shooting an unarmed man.
Speaking without thinking is like shooting without looking.

Movie subtitles

I have a shooting close by here. It's a short break and I heard Yoon's song.
Where are you shooting?
But there still time till the shooting.
The guy shooting at us is Afghan.
Who are you shooting at?!
If you hear us shooting, immediately open fire towards the village.
It's all over but the shooting.
He's so far behind the lines he can't hear the shooting!
It appears to me you do your shooting by daylight, with too many people looking on.
Drop that gun before we start shooting.
Shooting your mouth off in the papers.
Watch out! The fool's shooting!
They're going to start shooting.
Now some real shooting.
Who are you shooting at?
Stop shooting', everybody!
Stop shooting'!
Well, Flack, just when you gonna start this shooting'?
But shooting?
Don't you think that before shooting a spy, we should make him talk?
They'll be shooting each other like rabbits.
Try that. Meehan will turn this side of town into a shooting gallery.
You're shooting your own men.
On his script, he had each camera setup for the day's shooting noted in his own handwriting opposite the dialogue.
The negative was then developed. After the entire film was finished shooting, Fulton and his crew, along with director James Whale, began the special process work.
He just started shooting.
It makes McClosky sore and he tears after Jerry shooting right and left to the body.
There's some things worse'n shooting. One of 'ems the hell..
Where are they shooting at now?
We've just been shooting the first scene.
They can't bust in here shooting questions at my wife.
You're not in a shooting gallery!
Maybe I was down at Charley's shooting pool.
Mystery surrounds the shooting.
What was the shooting?

News and current affairs

He carried out these orders ruthlessly, his troops shooting down over 100 unarmed street demonstrators.
As a result, public deficits are shooting up everywhere.
Given the shooting of then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, perhaps they even fear that they, too, might be targeted.
America reels from one shooting disaster to the next, and on nearly every occasion, politicians dutifully declare their continued devotion to unregulated gun ownership.
The shooting in Newtown was not only especially horrific and heartbreaking, but is also part of an increasingly common pattern - a specific kind of murder-suicide that has been carefully studied by psychologists and psychiatrists.
America has now suffered around 30 shooting massacres over the past 30 years, including this year's deadly dozen; each is a gut-wrenching tragedy for many families.
Koreans have already shown their penchant for multi-lateral diplomacy and trouble shooting through the six-party talks.
Trying to win hearts and minds is certainly an improvement over bombing or shooting up the local population.
Then the Israeli tanks that had been shooting up the trench lines crossed over them to enter the box, and finish off Egyptian resistance.
The shooting, by automatic weapon fire, took place in broad daylight in a largely Roma neighborhood, where the grandmother of one of the victims lived.
The Chinese soldiers allegedly assumed firing positions, leading the Indians to withdraw in order not to provoke a shooting match.
Putin is shooting back, accusing the West of trying to weaken and dismember Russia.
But does that mean that Israel should let them keep shooting at it?
Instead, we should perhaps stop shooting the 300 polar bears we hunt each year.
Shooting the messenger is no way to respond to the message.
Gaps in income and wealth may be shooting up within individual countries, but per capita income in developing countries is rising much faster than in the advanced economies.
Imagine your next-door neighbor - with whom you have had a long and bloody feud - pulling out a gun and shooting into your windows, from his own living room, which is densely packed with women and children.
For the time being, Israel should strive for the safest truce it can accomplish, provided that Hamas stops shooting out of its own crowded living room.
If a shooting war ever breaks out in Asia, Japan is nowadays prepared to do a lot more than fill the petrol tanks.
But the main attraction is a shooting gallery where patrons can test their skills between courses.
The images C of the lynching of Israeli soldiers, the shooting of that Palestinian boy C have had their effect.
Some people even fear that the present war of words over Cyprus could lead to a shooting war in earnest between Greece and Turkey.

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