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Example sentences for "sharpshooting"

Lexicographically close words:
sharpness; sharpnesse; sharps; sharpshooter; sharpshooters; shatter; shattered; shattering; shatters; shaue
  1. Shelling and sharpshooting was kept up during the day, and a picket line, which required our entire strength, was maintained at night.

  2. The sharpshooting upon both sides, in the intervals of attack, was excellent.

  3. Then I was called out by Lieutenant Akerstrom to go down alongside the bluff sharpshooting again, because the rebels were coming down Cold creek.

  4. Sharpshooting commenced early afterwards, and kept coming closer and closer until the skirmishers were drawn in about ten o'clock.

  5. Then there was sharpshooting for about an hour and a half, and we were all in good spirits.

  6. The sharpshooting continued, but here as elsewhere, the Iroquois had the worst of it.

  7. Once or twice the warriors started a rush, but they were quickly driven back by sharpshooting such as they had never faced before.

  8. While two or three men maintained the sharpshooting in the front, he waited for the attack.

  9. Theirs would be the main attack, but it would be preceded by sharpshooting from the four, intended to absorb the attention of the Iroquois.

  10. Will, you push on with the animals, and maybe if you look back you'll see that what I told you about Giant Tom's sharpshooting is true.

  11. That wonderful sharpshooting feat of the Little Giant was still in his mind.

  12. When the brigade was near the woodland in its advance, a most deadly fire was directed towards the center of the 3d both by the battery to our left, and sharpshooting in the front.

  13. Soon our line was established, and the usual skirmishing and sharpshooting commenced.

  14. This battalion was to do the skirmishing and sharpshooting for the brigade.

  15. We remained here, I think, three days, with the enemy in front and heavy skirmishing and sharpshooting going on, but no regular engagement was had here.

  16. I guess that we must have remained at this point during the night--I cannot recollect--but I think next morning all sharpshooting had stopped and everything on the entire line seemed to be perfectly quiet.

  17. Here we remained sharpshooting heavily all day; but about dark that held up and we were comparatively quiet.

  18. Those of the Acarnanians who had crept down the mountain side at that instant in the midst of their sharpshooting turned and fled, and as they climbed the steep, man after man was slain.

  19. Meanwhile the Athenians prosecuted the siege of Byzantium; lines of circumvallation were drawn; and they diversified the blockade by sharpshooting at long range and occasional assaults upon the walls.

  20. They weren't used to sharpshooting in total darkness.

  21. Rick guessed that the attackers didn't like the weird sharpshooting in the darkness.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sharpshooting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.