Sentence examples for arm shoot from inspiring English sources

Shut inside a locker for five days (Five Day Locker, 1971); shot in the arm (Shoot, 1971); and nailed through the palms of his hands to the roof of a car (Trans-fixed, 1974), he sought to reflect the violence that defined American politics, society, and media at the time. .

Susan Bartholemew had her arm shot off.

All of a sudden, his arm shot forward.

— The referee's right arm shot up, and John Tortorella flew into a rage.

I won't pretend that my arm shoots straight into the air, as if in homage to Dr Strangelove.

After turning in Jonathan Stafford's arms, she suddenly stopped, and her arm shot up with a flexed wrist mirroring the ballet's iconic opening position.

He recently had his left arm shot off by an extremely maladroit colleague who accidentally discharged sawed-off shotgun while they were both pursuing hold-up men.

His arm shoots out, then freezes; he looms over the front-chair strings, then falls into a simian crouch; he sways this way and that, audibly grunting.

Whenever Vicky bobs into view, his arm shoots up in greeting - straight from his sea of solipsism, not waving but drowning.

The attack began with a seizure: her left arm shot up into the air, and she was thrown against the wall of the art gallery she was visiting.

Much of the time Ms. Nelson's choreography, especially in duet form, is generic, starting with a twitch in the hips, a leg or an arm shooting out at an extreme angle and, finally, a return to starting position.