buckshot
Example Sentences
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"We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant's Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer," Pirro said.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
You could say the difference between rage farming and engagement flubs is like buckshot and birdshot: Same general purpose, but one’s much less dangerous.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2023
Fragments fell like extraterrestrial buckshot into a national park larger than the Netherlands.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2021
“There is no silver bullet, there is, you know, golden buckshot, because it’s going to take a lot of different kinds of policies to win this battle,” Inslee said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
“I looked that rabbit over good, Marty, and you won’t find any buckshot in that thigh,” Dad says, buttering his bread.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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