How To Use Shoot down In A Sentence
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To be an ace you had to shoot down five enemy aircraft.
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With enough air shooting up and down, the pinwheel is knocked on its side, creating a huge rotating mass of clouds called a mesocyclone - the hallmark of a tornado-spawning supercell storm - from which a funnel cloud can shoot down.
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During the 1980s, Edward Teller—father of the H-bomb—promoted a radical idea for missile defense: shoot down Soviet ICBMs using high-energy X-ray lasers powered by a nuclear explosion in space.
The Omega Theory
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The navy may have to wait another day before launching a heat-seeking missile to shoot down a spy satellite.
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The gates opened with speed to let the approaching friends in, and bowmen fitted bows to shoot down the riders.
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If you order a White Chocolate Mocha, the procedure is simple: a squirt of white chocolate syrup, and then over to the machine where shots of espresso shoot down.
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The two men are suspected of trying to smuggle into this country shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles designed to shoot down aircraft.
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It's true that a few A-4s were flown by the Navy Fighter Weapons School at Miramar, California-but they played the role of "bogies," which the fighter pilots in training were supposed to intercept and shoot down.
Free Democracy
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The gunners managed to shoot down two of the attackers before the aircraft was badly hit, limping back to base on two of its four engines.
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ISTANBUL — A Turkish court on Friday arraigned an al Qaeda suspect found with software designed to help shoot down surveillance drones in Afghanistan, according to state-run newswire Anadolu Ajansi.
Turkey Arraigns al Qaeda Suspect
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Both curling and skeleton (you hop on a rectangular plastic ice skate and shoot down a frozen water-slide) are Olympic sports.
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The new SA-10 surface-to-air missile, being installed across the Soviet Union, can also shoot down cruise missiles.
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Nevertheless, he somehow bribed his way out of hospital to shoot down an impudent intruder strafing his base.
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At the meeting Smith made some objection to my plan which I was able to shoot down in flames with no trouble.
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Government departments have reached a draft agreement to give the military sole authority to shoot down unidentified aircraft entering forbidden airspace.
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I had been waiting a very long time for this talk with the retention officer, just so I could hear his inane babble and immediately shoot down his flimsy efforts.
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He was able to shoot down a flying bird with the bow and arrow.
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For the exchange of a handful of shrapnel, grilled free-range chicken with an expert light aïoli, or with a zappy salsa verde, will shoot down these chutes.
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The involvement of a paid government informant is the only reason four Newburgh, N.Y., men are facing charges they engaged in a plot to blow up a Bronx synagogue and to shoot down military planes last year, defense lawyers said Tuesday.
Informant Draws Fire
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Shoot down all who want to escape!
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Stingers can shoot down aircraft, including civilian jetliners, flying at low altitudes.
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Shoot down all who want to escape!
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I’ve seen many a good title bogged down with comments like: ‘it’s not real if it’s not from Japan’ Perhaps if some authors were quick on the trigger to shoot down that nonsense, immature reviewers might dwindle away…but alas, this is asking for trouble, because even those truly critical of your work will avoiding saying so for fear Rice-Style retribution.
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At the meeting Smith made some objection to my plan which I was able to shoot down in flames with no trouble.
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Nevertheless, he somehow bribed his way out of hospital to shoot down an impudent intruder strafing his base.
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The news of Corvette 03's shoot down arrived in the JRCC at a busy time; it was a hectic night with numerous reports of aircraft down and emergency beacons being detected.
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Accomplishing all this with anything like the efficiency American forces have enjoyed since the Vietnam War depends on owning the sky, which means having air-to-air hunter-killers that can shoot down enemy planes and destroy surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites before the rest of the fleet takes to the sky.
The Last Ace
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But nothing, absolutely *nothing* about Crowe's character throughout the movie convinced me that he was the person who would, at the very last minute, turn on a dime, shoot down his own gang and then throw himself in jail out of some weird sense of nobility.
3:10 to Yuma
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Mr. Noble says he would shoot down any suggestion that Interpol should head up an international antiterrorist squad.
Making Interpol Relevant Again
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In some missions, you'll be required to hop on an antiaircraft gun and shoot down enemy fighter planes, while in others you'll be manning chain guns and cannons on moving boats and trucks.
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To be an ace you had to shoot down five enemy aircraft.
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His broader mission amounted to try to shoot down what he described as erroneous claims that have risen as the debate in Washington and the nation has developed.
Undefined
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The pain can shoot down your lower back into your buttocks, or down your leg.
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They would go in bunched, the pinnaces ahead; they and the Space-Scourge would go down to the ground, while the better-armed Nemesis would hover above to fight off local contragravity, shoot down missiles, and generally provide overhead cover.
Space Viking
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I pouted and folded my arms again, energy sapped because a certain so-and-so decided to shoot down my enthusiasm.
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I could no longer walk the plank or shoot down enemy fighters with the same reckless abandon.
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Columnist Max Castro writes in today's Miami Herald about one double standard that is of a type that "infuriates" other nations:On Tuesday, the United States gave its blessing to a program -- known in bureaucratic doublespeak as the ''Airbridge Denial Program'' -- that allows Colombian fighter pilots to shoot down unarmed civilian aircraft suspected of carrying drugs.
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