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
In Magee’s composition, Shiffler even gestures to the bleeding wound in his side, which looks more like the piercing of a Roman spear than the crater from a blast of buckshot.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
The tank from the water truck still lay smashed against a bank of rocks; it looked like a giant soda can shot through buckshot and then crushed by a giant hand.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2018
“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
Eris breathed a shadowy spray of buckshot across the void.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
