Shooting

/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Moving or growing quickly.

Definitions by Sense

1. Moving or growing quickly
2. Of a pain, sudden and darting
3. (countable) an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
4. (uncountable) the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon
5. a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms
6. the act of one who, or that which, shoots
7. a sensation of darting pain
8. (film, television) filming

Example Sentences

Shooting beams of light played over the sea.

I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.

Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.

Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.

The Gun Violence Archive[…] defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people were killed or injured. As of late March, the Gun Violence Archive has counted 130 mass shootings in the United States this year.

Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.

I take part in shooting at the local archery club.

the shooting of rays of light

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