How to Use shoot-out in a Sentence

shoot-out

noun

• Here's who survived the Netflix film's many shoot-outs and brawls.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• Sure enough, someone pulls a gun, and a shoot-out ensues.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
• The shoot-out with the Libyans is replaced by a plutonium mishap, and the dog is gone, too.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
• Boasting all the one-liners, shoot-outs, and stunts one would expect from the genre — all grounded in the seedy world of the '70s L.A.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2024
• He later was killed by the Oakland Police in a shoot-out.
  — Gayle Fleming, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
• But the sequence in the middle, an apartment-set shoot-out, posed a problem.
  — Vulture, 31 Mar. 2023
• Nothing felt big enough to film the shoot-out in, to crawl through, to be a Gemstone vacation house.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 May 2025
• The suspect was killed days later in a shoot-out with police in Milan.
  — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2024
• The actors appeared relieved when England won the stressful shoot-out and were able to get on with their show.
  — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 8 July 2024
• The rest is a strictly routine pileup of car crashes, shoot-outs and wisecracks.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2024
• The script called for Baldwin’s character, an outlaw named Harland Rust, to prepare for a shoot-out in the chapel.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• Still, the shoot-out goes how shoot-outs tend to on TV: No one is that great at shooting, so there are tons of bullets flying and only a few hits.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2025
• Anybody knows that ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is really just a song about a shoot-out between us and the police.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2023
• Gunfire erupted, and in the shoot-out, Officer Foerster was hit four times and killed.
  — Eric Shawn, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
• After a standoff and shoot-out in which Horace kills the crew, Kimmie admits to going along with Angel’s plan to rob him.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
• One of the thieves was later wounded by a police officer in a shoot-out at the Les Halles shopping center, roughly a mile-and-a-half away.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 3 May 2023
• The shoot-out had been nervy so far, Sweden matching the United States miss for miss, goal for goal—from newcomers and seasoned players alike.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• The eerie minute of film features a brutal shoot-out between multiple characters, and the footage ends with the sounds of bullets being fired.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
• They are believed to have fled on foot following the shoot-out, authorities added.
  — Latoya Gayle, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
• The Turkish international also made the decisive save in the shoot-out from Kai Havertz.
  — Sam Pilger, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
• Police involved in an active shoot-out with a suspect in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Every episode is just compelling and action packed enough, and because police in the U.K. don’t carry guns, every episode doesn’t just end in a ridiculous shoot-out.
  — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
• Anderson was killed in an unrelated gang shoot-out in May 1998.
  — Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 1 July 2025
• Cause of death: Accidentally shot by a machine gun during a shoot-out.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 19 May 2025
• But what struck me was the talking black cat and the killer clown having a shoot-out with the KGB, bullets flying everywhere, and, impossibly, no one getting hit.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
• The trailer, released Wednesday, features an explosive car crash, shoot-outs, and a carry-on bag with an undisclosed weapon.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024
• Working as an assistant to a high-tech Mafia-like character named Ben, he is caught up in a shoot-out with customs officials.
  — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 6 July 2025
• But after a controversial shoot-out, Givens is sent home to Harlan County.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
• Can Maye win a shoot-out in Charm City?
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
• The soldiers realize who’s there, and a shoot-out commences.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025