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
The Telegraaf records that the soldiers of the shooting party were greatly impressed by the courage and fortitude of the nurse, and much distressed at their enforced participation in a dastardly crime.
From A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell by Protheroe, Ernest
