Antonyms for shootingshoot·ing

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1. shooting, shotnoun

   the act of firing a projectile

   "his shooting was slow but accurate"

   Synonyms:
   stab, injection, scene, guess, dig, stroke, barb, pellet, gibe, guesswork, slam, crack, shooter, dead reckoning, guessing, blastoff, snap, snapshot, shaft, shot, jibe

2. shootingnoun

   killing someone by gunfire

   "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

   Synonyms:
   shot

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1. shootingadjective

   Synonyms:
   darting, piercing

How to use shooting in a sentence?

1. Eddie Ray Routh:

   Not only was he suffering from a severe mental disease or defect, not only did he not know his conduct was wrong, he thought he had to take their lives because he was in danger. so we're shooting pistols here, huh?

2. Marcin Gortat:

   You can't win a game if a guy is shooting like that.

3. Paul Roos:

   We ducked behind a counter but I stood up and watched him. Two explosions went off shortly after one another. By that time he had stopped shooting, he turned around and started coming towards us. He was holding his gun inside his jacket. He looked around anxiously to see if anyone was going to stop him and then went down the escalator ... We heard some more gunfire and then another explosion, and then it was over.

4. Brandon Cornwell:

   He was actively shooting, i can’t say if he was targeting us. But he was still shooting in that location where he was at. There were bullet holes in the wall, so he had shot through the wall. But I couldn’t tell you if he was shooting at us.

5. Eric Holder:

   The Justice Department's investigation into the shooting death of Michael Brown, as well as our investigation into allegations of unconstitutional policing patterns or practices by the Ferguson Police Department, remain ongoing and active, they have been rigorous and independent from the very beginning.

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