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- BB guns shoot small round metal pellets
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- soldiers train extensively to learn to shoot accurately and quickly
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- hunters can shoot deer only during the legally specified open season
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- pistoling
- (or pistolling),
- shotgunning
- croaking
- [slang],
- destroying,
- dispatching,
- doing in,
- felling,
- icing
- [slang],
- killing,
- slaying
- some show-off shot past all the other skiers on the slope
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- barreling
- (or barrelling),
- belting,
- blasting,
- blazing,
- blowing,
- bolting,
- bombing
- [slang],
- bowling,
- breezing,
- bundling,
- bustling,
- buzzing,
- cannonballing,
- careening,
- careering,
- chasing,
- coursing,
- cracking (on),
- dashing,
- driving,
- flying,
- haring,
- hastening,
- highballing,
- hotfooting (it),
- humping,
- hurling,
- hurrying,
- hurtling,
- hustling,
- hying
- (or hieing),
- jetting,
- jumping,
- motoring,
- nipping,
- pelting,
- racing,
- ramming,
- ripping,
- rocketing,
- running,
- rushing,
- rustling,
- scooting,
- scurrying,
- scuttling,
- speeding,
- stepping,
- tearing,
- traveling
- (or travelling),
- trotting,
- whirling,
- whisking,
- zipping,
- zooming
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- shooting the lakeside scene while the light lasted
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- suddenly the old, broken-down toaster began shooting out sparks
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- casting,
- discharging,
- emanating,
- emitting,
- evolving,
- exhaling,
- expelling,
- expiring
- [archaic],
- giving out,
- irradiating,
- issuing,
- radiating,
- releasing,
- sending (out),
- throwing out,
- venting
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- you've been wanting to say something since this meeting started, so shoot
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- belting up
- [British],
- clamming up,
- dummying up,
- hushing,
- shutting up,
- suppressing
- hazel eyes that were brown shot with green
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- shot a congratulatory e-mail to his friend as soon as he heard the good news
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The first known use of shooting was in the 13th century
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