Sentence examples for called a shot from inspiring English sources

"But each neighborhood required what's called a shot caller, and he got us into a number of those neighborhoods too".

Liberal groups had mobilized behind her rival, Bill Halter, in what they called "a shot across the bow" to other centrists who obstruct or weaken the Democratic agenda.

In 1931, according to the book, published posthumously in June by Wood's son, David, the two Americans called a shot of their own.

Ljubicic, serving at deuce, was unhappy when Murray called a shot in and saw the Hawk-Eye replay support his claim.

The most intoxicatingly odd is called A Shot in the Dark, in which he plays a man who believes he may have killed the local vicar by accidentally pushing him into a pit of slime.

Besides being evidence that there weren't enough women, or girls, making movies in Griffith's primordial times, the aphorism hints at a greater truth (putting aside, of course, the fact that one single take in a film is called a shot).

How many tennis opponents do you know who will always call a shot out even when the ball lands six inches inside the line?

"I couldn't believe when he called a penalty shot.

Ramirez hit what Wright called a "cue shot" that dribbled between first and second.

The Warriors personify a league that has embrace what Popovich once called a "circus shot".

Mystic Monk Coffee, roasted by the Carmelite monks of Cody, Wyo., even features a single-serving pod called a "monk shot".