How to use "shot" in a sentence

Water shot out of the wound

The giant squid shot black ink out of its body, and none of us could see anything

Doyle and I and the other two men threw grenades, but then an enemy soldier shot Bones in the head

During all of this, somebody shot me in the back of the leg, but I can't remember when it happened

Marius, meanwhile, raised his right hand with the gun, ready to fire the warning shot.

If he fired the warning shot, M

The first shot killed the commander of the soldiers guarding the exit to the bridge

'You'll be shot two minutes before the barricade falls,' Enjolras informed him.

Marius took Javert's guns from his pockets and shot the soldier dead.

'Now I shall be shot.'

Suddenly, there is a sound like a gun shot, and I fall

But then I see the light in the sky, and I realise that the shot was a flare

As he lies there shouting and screaming and trying to pull the pieces of shot from his skin, he looks up at the beautiful blue sky and green trees and magnificent forest.

I shot Rebecca in the cottage

Some of our clients made smart moves and were carried right to the top by the explosive growth of the gaming industry and the Vegas real-estate market, and we just sort of shot up there along with them, hanging on to their coattails."

Elliot dropped the measuring cup and seized the gun, but Vince reflexively squeezed off a shot that breezed past Elliot's face and smashed the window behind the sink

Ruby Ridge - a fourteen-year-old boy shot in the back by the FBI

"As far as I can see, you haven't shot one hole in it yet

With every step he took, Elliot expected to hear a shot fired a cry of alarm, and the sounds of men in pursuit of quarry.

He didn't hear a shot, but a bullet shattered the rear side window behind his head and slammed into the back of the front seat, spraying gummy bits of safety glass through the car.

Elliot rammed his foot down hard on the accelerator, and the Explorer shot forward.

Through sudden tears of pain, Elliot saw the young guard rushing him, and he squeezed off one whisper-quiet shot.

It opened onto a junction of two hallways, which Tina had discovered a few minutes ago, just after Elliot had shot the guard, when she had peeked through the door to see if reinforcements were on the way.

The man was dead - shot through the head.

And shot in the vicarage study? But you, dear Vicar, were not here at the time?' I explained where I had been.

'But if there was an argument,' I argued, 'the shot may have been fired in sudden anger, and Lawrence might have been very upset afterwards about what he had done.'

And the colonel was shot while he was writing a letter

They argued and he shot him

Amazing that nobody heard the shot.'

'What do you mean - what had just happened? When do you think Redding shot him?'

You found Protheroe there, argued with him, shot him, and left.'

'It's true! I hated him, and yesterday I shot him.'

And you didn't hear a shot?'

'I didn't hear a shot then,' said Miss Marple.

'Yes, I think there was a shot somewhere in the woods

When does she say she shot him?'

When she came in, I asked her, 'Mary, are you sure you didn't hear the shot yesterday evening?'

'The shot that killed old Protheroe? No, of course I didn't

'Yes, but did you hear any other shot - one down in the woods, perhaps?'

'It's strange,' I said, 'that everyone says the shot came from the woods.'

So when you hear a shot, you naturally think it comes from there.'

Mary told him that Colonel Protheroe was there, so he went in - and shot him - just as he said he did!'

'But the doctor says that Protheroe was shot before six-thirty.'

And as he was writing, someone came in through the garden doors, came up behind the colonel and shot him

'Then there was that shot I heard,' said Miss Marple, 'Yes, the sound was different from the usual sort of shot.'

So when I heard a shot in the woods, I...'

'A shot in the woods?' asked Inspector Slack.

And the shot was loud? As though it was close by?'

'So, that is three people who heard the shot,' said Inspector Slack

As we sat down, I told him that we now knew the time of the shot.

'If he shot Colonel Protheroe...'

'And that shot,' I said

'Inspector Slack asked me whether I heard the shot after Mr Redding and Mrs Protheroe had left the studio or before

Whoever shot the colonel came through the front door

But if only that shot hadn't come just at the end of the call - well, I'd know where to look.'

'But, of course, she can't have telephoned Mrs Price Ridley and shot Colonel Protheroe at exactly the same time,' he continued

It was his opinion that the colonel had been shot at approximately 6.20 to 6.30 - certainly not later than 6.35.

She didn't hear any shot

Well, of course, there must have been a shot, because the gentleman was found shot - but she had not heard it.

Here Protheroe had sat when he had been shot

'A reason, yes, but when the shot was fired, Dr Stone was walking to the village with Mrs Protheroe and Lawrence Redding.'

'Do you really think he shot Colonel Protheroe?' I asked.

He was determined to punish him, so he had a lot to drink and then shot him

'We know everything that Redding was doing up to 6.50 and Dr Haydock says Protheroe could not have been shot then.'

Because it was Mrs Protheroe who shot Colonel Protheroe - not Mr Redding.'

So Griselda stole the pistol and shot him before I got home.

She took the pistol from the pot, came up behind him and shot him

'But the shot?' said Melchett

'You didn't hear the shot?'

So perhaps the sneeze that Mrs Price Ridley's servant heard might have been the shot? But anyway, Mrs Protheroe and Mr Redding went into the studio together - and then realized, of course, that I would not leave my garden until I saw them come out again!'

'What about the shot heard in the woods?' I asked

'It was absolutely necessary for a shot to be heard because without it Mrs Protheroe might have continued to be a suspect

'But the shot was heard at 6.30 when Lawrence and Anne had come out of the studio

When the poor young man was found dead and the letter was read, everyone would think that he had shot Colonel Protheroe and killed himself because he felt so guilty

The coincidence was that the call was made at exactly the same time as the pretend shot from the wood

A violent explosion shook the air, and a column of water, steam, mud and broken metal shot far up into the sky

The guns of the Thunder Child were heard going off one after another, and one shot hit the water close by the steamboat.

'After the tenth shot they fired no more - at least until the first cylinder came.'

On 9th October 2012, a man from the Taliban got on to Malala's bus and shot Malala in the head and neck