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Example sentences for "snap shot"

  • This is an admirable weapon, and cannot be too highly recommended for shooting in bush where game is generally to be seen within 100 yards, though it rarely offers more than a snap shot.

  • Once in a while the observance of this rule may lose you a beast which you might have crippled, and eventually secured if you had taken a snap shot at the grey thing which you saw moving in the bushes.

  • A Paradox is particularly useful should the sportsman’s dinner depend on a snap shot at an antelope, guinea-fowl, or francolin.

  • He raised his own gun, watched one of the jumping muzzles for an instant, and then tried a snap shot.

  • Cartwright would probably snatch at his own gun which lay before him in its holster on the table, and whirling he would try a snap shot.

  • He saw a gun jerk high for a snap shot, and, swerving as he leaped, he drove out with all his weight behind his fist.

  • He brought a Colt smoothly into his hand and balanced it dexterously, swinging it back and forth between his eyes and the target to make ready for a snap shot.

  • Wheeling in my saddle I took a snap shot at the pursuing herd, and one of the animals tumbled in his tracks.

  • It was only a snap shot I got at the beast, but I wounded it; and you'd better believe I lost no time following up the trail.

  • At once I slackened speed, and my pursuer closed in upon me so swiftly that I concluded to try a snap shot.

  • Think of shooting for the head with a snap shot!

  • Why not a quick draw, a snap shot, and then the glory of having killed this manslayer in single battle for Joe Rix?

  • I caught up my express and made a snap shot at him, but in my haste and surprise missed him clear.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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