like a clay pigeon

The final pass of Pickett’s first training camp practice as a professional ended with an interception that floated into the hands of rookie undrafted free agent cornerback Carlins Platel, who celebrated by tossing the ball in the air like a clay pigeon and pretending to shoot it down.

Before it could get very far, I crossed my arms again and fired another specium ray, nailing the retreating head like a clay pigeon.

In the midst of a dizzy, fluttering maneuver of our own, with the Han ship enlarging to our gaze with terrifying rapidity, and its beam slowly slicing toward us in what looked like certain destruction within the second, I saw Gibbons' fingers flick at the lever of his rocket gun and a split second later the Han ship flew apart like a clay pigeon.