shoot ahead
Example Sentences
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When reporters asked Kerry and Zarif about Yemen during a brief photo shoot ahead of the talks, both men declined to answer.
From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2015
When fired, they will shoot ahead and vanish with blinding speed.
From Time Magazine Archive
You're going to need one or two fish that'll be bigger than the rest to really shoot ahead in the competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Planets course around the sky throughout the year, but every so often they stop, move backward, and then shoot ahead once more.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
With a gasping bark, as of triumph, Jess wheeled after him, and the roan mare, unable to turn quite so swiftly, left Finn to shoot ahead for the first time, perhaps fifteen paces behind Jess.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
