How to Use shoot-out in a Sentence

shoot-out

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But after a controversial shoot-out, Givens is sent home to Harlan County.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 28 July 2023
• Sometimes those folks acquire a gun with the intention of harming others, looking to share their pain or hoping they themselves will be killed in a shoot-out.
  — Anthony Montalto, New York Daily News, 2 Aug. 2024
• There were shoot-outs and arrests, followed quickly by reports of heavy-handed treatment of suspects and, in some cases, of torture.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• That a cooking gas cannister won’t detonate in error, and spark a shoot-out that breaks the peace permanently.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
• Alex then stayed onboard the train to seek medical attention for her frostbite in Bozeman, while a shoot-out ensued at the Livingston train station.
  — Julia Moore, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025
• Police used parts of their house for cover during the firefight, and drove an armored vehicle through the backyard, damaging parts of the property on the way to the shoot-out, Chhoeun said.
  — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2024
• Damage to nearby homes A neighbor’s house also sustained damage during the Charlotte shoot-out.
  — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2024
• Despite being wounded, the sergeant and the other officers chased the suspect and ended up in a shoot-out with him after the gunman got out of his wrecked car and opened fire on the officers, Castro said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2024
• Yet there are enough big, better-than-decent movie moments, from shoot-outs to impromptu elevator sing-alongs, that not even a small screen can dilute.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023