Sentence examples for deliver a shot from inspiring English sources

Increasing that ratio would deliver a shot in the arm to productivity.

I hope so, because Alt Lit poetry has the potential to deliver a shot to whichever arm performance poetry hasn't got to first.

Then expect room service to deliver a shot to the back of the head and a rat to stuff in your mouth.

Initially, after the chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21 that killed an estimated 1,400 civilians, the White House argued that military action was intended to send a message — or, in Mr. Obama's ill-chosen phrase, deliver a "shot across the bow" — that President Bashar al-Assad could not use chemical weapons, which are banned under international treaties, with impunity.

Senior US administration officials said the commitments, the result of months of dialogue between the world's top two carbon emitters, would encourage other nations to make pledges and deliver "a shot of momentum" into negotiations for a new global agreement set to go into force in 2020.

"You've got 30 to 40,000 fans asking you to deliver a shot and waiting with bated breath.

And it delivers a shot of nostalgia right to the viewer's heart.

Remember how oil at $40 a barrel in early 2009, down from $140 six months before, delivered a shot of adrenaline?

He delivered a shot worth watching, too, one of many he produced over the course of the two-day event.

The crisp apple flavor is a tad sweeter than the traditional dry, and the apple-ginger delivers a shot of heat.

In this campaign he seems overflowing with confidence and delivered a shot that Guaita punched spectacularly away only to find Anderson closing in on the rebound.