Examples of potshot in a Sentence

Noun A sniper was on the roof taking potshots at passing cars. Verb ended the show with an extended rant in which he potshot an array of personages on the right

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun In 1993, a jokester did the same thing, although there was no Cash silhouette to take a potshot at back then. — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 19 May 2022 Aleksandar Trajkovski barrelled into the Italian defense and took a speculative potshot from 20 yards, only to find the bottom corner of the Italian goal. — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022 But there’s also a deep rabbit hole of older Orson depictions out there, most delivered in playful, potshot fashion. — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021 Jon Voight's Christmas card list thanks to an endorsement of Joe Biden that included a potshot at his costar. — Clark Collis, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2020 Koepka’s potshot at Johnson broke every gentleman’s rule in golf. — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020 On the flip side is Trevor Bauer, who embraces radical training methods and loves to take verbal potshots at everyone — fellow players and the commissioner included — without regard to the consequences. — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 17 Mar. 2020 Relocating Dürrenmatt’s tragicomic fable from middle Europe to a dying factory town in upstate New York in the mid-1950s has allowed him to take uncharacteristically crude potshots at all-American consumerism. — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020 But drained of family drama, Marc’s theory on positive reinforcement seems less a potshot than one more desperate response to an epidemic without cure. — S.l. Price, SI.com, 9 May 2017 See More

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