shooting pain

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Josh Askins woke up in the crawl space of an abandoned house with nausea, chills and a shooting pain in his legs.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2023

But the shooting pain radiating from his fingertips healed and the doping case was dismissed.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2021

Since then, he has been dealing with recurring symptoms, from fatigue to back problems to "shooting pain" in his legs.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2021

“If you have enough inflammation in the area, you can have nerves that have swelling around them as well that could send a shooting pain down the arm,” Ritter explains.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2021

I tried to follow his directions to the letter, but I felt a shooting pain through the front of my right quadriceps and down the back of my left hamstring.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad