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How to use the word Shots in a Sentence? Page #21

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My job is just going out there and helping my team mates, get them open shots and fight for offensive rebounds.

– Enes Kanter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We don't want to take anything away from them, they played great, they made shots, they moved the ball well. We knew coming in to this game that they were a high-scoring team and we never slowed them down.

– Chris Paul

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With this schedule and the magnitude of opponents, you got to scratch and claw to get anything you can, hey, it didn't look good early. We were missing shots. We weren't guarding them well. The guys hung in, and we gave ourselves a chance, and we did just that.

– The Mavericks

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I slowed my pursuit'cause I didn't know where( the shots) were coming from.

– Officer Lou Toth

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For the more serious shots, the vest wouldn’t have helped him anyway.

– Officer Eric Stanbro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We really moved the ball well and got good open shots, guys knocked them down.

– Draymond Green

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was a terrorist attack yesterday, in the city of Philadelphia. A terrorist attack, he walks up to the car and starts firing shots. They arrest him, he tells them, he confesses, 'I did it in the name of ISIS,'.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're shooting the ball real well, we're making shots. We're executing well.

– Doc Rivers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All of the gunshots were fired before Gwinnett County police entered the actual room where the suspects were. No law enforcement personnel fired any shots during this whole incident.

– Corporal Deon Washington

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Seven bullets were put in my son. Seven, eight shots were fired.

– Janet Cooksey

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's just two very offensively powered teams, we are usually right up there at the top in the league in offense and they are usually right up there, too. Tonight both teams just made shots and it came down to whoever made the most stops.

– Chris Paul

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We may see a few shots coming our direction, and I suppose in a sense that's a backhanded compliment.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Obviously, I wasn't happy about Indiana Pacers ' start, but most the shots( The Raptors) were making were over the top( 9 of 11), and the key to beating them usually is keeping them out of the lane.

– Frank Vogel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was about to turn left to Tel Aviv, suddenly a car went up onto a bus station, shots immediately opened up ... There are people in the station... A number of people simply lifted up the car, because there were people underneath it.

– Miri Krimolovsky

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We got stops, i was looking around and everybody had a man boxed out and we were just grabbing rebounds, so we made them shoot tough shots. I think all night we made them shoot tough shots.

– Kevin Durant

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've got to finish better in the paint, we've got to make more of our shots close to the basket.

– Mike Budenholzer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You work the body in (the) early rounds and maybe you won't get a knockout from those early round body shots, but several rounds later you'll see your... opponents knees begin to get weak ... and now he's beginning to get set up for the knockout.

– Army Colonel Steve Warren

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Deadly force is the last-resort measure. You only use that after you have exhausted all other means of putting somebody in custody, in this particular case, Officer Fry who fired the shots, he did not chase Mr. Chatman. He did not shout a warning. He did not use his radio to give direction of flight. He simply pointed his gun until he had a clear shot.

– Lorenzo Davis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Based on what we see in this video, it does not look like the officers who fired the fatal shots were in immediate danger of being killed and that there were other alternatives that could have been taken.

– Jeff Adachi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All the shots fired through the door would almost inevitably have struck the person behind it. There would be effectively no place to hide.

– Judge Eric Leach

Found on CNN
8 years ago

She heard the shots and (other people) crying.

– Marcos Aguilera

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was rapid boom, boom, boom, boom, i was behind the building, and I heard all the shots.

– Alan Ayers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

She heard the shots and crying.

– Marcos Aguilera

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Whether competing in the Finals or hoisting jump shots after midnight in an empty gym, Kobe has an unconditional love for the game, i join Kobe's millions of fans around the world in congratulating him on an outstanding NBA career and thank him for so many thrilling memories.

– Adam Silver

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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