How to Use shoot down in a Sentence

shoot down

verb
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  • Ross covers the team from the air in his plane but is shot down.
    — Richard Newby, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
  • And indeed, almost all of the 18 bombers the 7th Brigade has lost were shot down.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Air defenses shot down two out of six of the drones, the statement said.
    — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Hers was a bombardier who was shot down twice and earned a purple heart.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Some right-wing Trump allies quickly shot down the idea.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
  • Over the weekend, Britain and the United States said their militaries had shot down more than a dozen drones in the area.
    — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • However, Bush was led to believe Lenz turned the shoot down.
    — Glamour, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The United States has been shooting down Houthi missiles and drones, but that has not stopped the attacks.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The Ukrainian statement did not say whether any of the missiles had been shot down by air defences.
    — Fox News, 7 May 2024
  • Thanks to all who continue to shoot down that all-caps balloon!
    — WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The official stressed that the balloon was not shot down by the U.S. military.
    — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Just over the weekend, the U.S. destroyer Carney shot down 14 drones.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The team that would shoot down the highest value case would be safe from that night's elimination.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2024
  • But the next day, Devin LeMahieu, the majority leader in the Senate, shot down the idea of impeachment.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Some species hang around through the night, while others shoot down the canyon and across the eastern flats onto New Mexico fields to gorge on farm pests.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • Ukraine’s air defense system cannot shoot down the anti-aircraft missiles, the air force said.
    — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • One of those attempts, in 1975, was shot down by a lawsuit brought by a group of homeowners with property along the the river.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2024
  • During the incident, a U.S. warship shot down a drone launched from Yemen, the officials said.
    — Martha Raddatz, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The Arab kingdom of Jordan was shooting down Iran’s missiles side by side with Israel.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Western nations have promised systems that can shoot down drones but much of that weaponry has yet to arrive and could be months away.
    — Sabra Ayres, Hanna Arhirova and Inna Varenytsia, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Boston can be a town that is quick to shoot down novel ideas from hosting the 2024 Olympics to aerial gondolas in the Seaport.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Upgraded many times over the years, the Moskva should have had defenses to shoot down the Ukrainian missiles.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Apr. 2022
  • When Gauff won, with a backhand passing shot down the line, Arthur Ashe Stadium erupted.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In 1943, an American bomber headed for Sicily was shot down over the Mediterranean.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The ministry said air defense systems shot down 10 drones and jammed another three.
    — Hanna Arhirova and Emma Burrows, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Rising shot down any potential of him playing Week 1 less than 100%.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 July 2023
  • And Australia’s military claims the pricey aircraft is ready to shoot down errant spy balloons.
    — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • On Sunday, Ukraine’s air force said on Telegram that the country’s air defenses shot down 30 cruise missiles and 27 drones overnight.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The American Hospital Association also shot down the policy last month in a response to a request for comments on the idea.
    — Maya Goldman, Axios, 11 July 2024
  • South Korea will deploy laser weapons to shoot down North Korean drones this year, becoming the world’s first country to deploy and operate such weapons in the military, the country’s arms procurement agency said on Thursday.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 11 July 2024

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