shooting party
Example Sentences
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They were at a shooting party; they're shooting grouse, they're shooting pheasant. it felt like a kind of obvious, coded way of saying that.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2023
Even Victaria Saxton, the 6-foot-2 forward known for her inside game, joined in the shooting party with her first collegiate 3-pointer in three career attempts just before halftime for a 30-point lead.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022
As the story goes: He was attending a shooting party in Ireland when he and his companions began to squabble over Europe’s fastest game bird.
From Washington Times • May 26, 2020
It’s a storied landscape that has attracted Ancestral Puebloans, polygamous Mormon pioneer ranchers and adventurers like Buffalo Bill, who accompanied a shooting party of British nobles through the area in 1892.
From The Guardian • May 25, 2018
Anyhow I said I would make one of the shooting party, and then he began to unfold our plan of campaign.
From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Weitemeyer, Thorvald
