Sentence examples for a shot of something from inspiring English sources

She was given a shot of something, regularly, to quiet her down, and this worked.

8.05pm: OK, here's a drinking game idea: have a shot of something every time the credit crunch gets mentioned.

Her raspy voice is like a shot of something strong and oaky, and her laugh is contagious, even when you're semi-scandalised at the joke.

She holds forth, plonking away on the piano, her voice like a shot of something illicit, while her excellent band rise with her, contributing licks of banjo and a classy trombone solo.

She was looking tired by the end of her shift, the bounce gone out of her step, her hair a shade duller under the drab lights, and even as I switched to coffee I noticed Chris slipping her a shot of something down at the end of the bar.

Failing that, why not try a shot of something a little easier to swallow, such as Malcolm Lowry's poem "The Drunkards," which begins: Notions of freedom are tied up with drink Our ideal life contains a tavern Where man may sit and talk or just think, All without fear of the nighted wyvern; _The articles — and the complete archives of The New Yorker, back to 1925 — are available to subscribers.

Instead, a lingering shot of something mundane – a front door being closed, a car pulling into a garage – is suddenly loaded with implication.

"It's just adulthood crashing in," my friend Web assured me one evening, handing me a double shot of something far nicer than I could afford.

If you do find that your willpower is waning, try a small shot of something sugary just to get you over the hump in an emergency.

But these complications are almost incidental, so consumed is Moshe with his hypochondria, compulsive eating (almost every scene he appears in begins with a shot of him stuffing something in his mouth) and a vague but acute sense of existential instability.

Maybe a shot of tequila or something.