Sentence examples for got into a shootout from inspiring English sources

Later on Sunday, and also in Mosul, American soldiers got into a shootout with a band of armed men.

A fugitive task force and a sex-assault suspect got into a shootout in New York on Monday, leaving the suspect dead and two federal marshals and a police detective wounded, authorities said.

An off-duty police officer who got into a shootout with an armed robber as the officer was getting her hair done in a beauty salon in Brooklyn on Saturday night shot the gunman's revolver out of his hands, police officials said on Monday.

Last Friday, Salva Kiir and Riek Machar, who led opposing sides in South Sudan's most recent civil war, and who now serve as the country's President and First Vice-President, respectively, met at the President's compound to discuss the previous day's skirmish — but, apparently, while they were talking their bodyguards got into a shootout.

In 1991, during a drug deal gone wrong, Costanzo got into a shootout with police.

Indeed, the attack in front of the parliament building follows close on the heels of another incident in south-west Ukraine, in which members of Right Sektor battalion got into a shootout with local police.

Jimbo Fisher does not want his quarterback, E.J. Manuel, to get into a shootout with Boyd.

Apparently, this team does not need to get into a shootout to win.

After getting into a shootout with the Bucks in the first half of Game 5, the Sixers found themselves down by 16 points before rallying to win.

And because the Ravens do not have an explosive offense,  there is the feeling that if they get into a shootout with, say, the Patriots, they could not keep up.

After their game seven win against the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference final, Lightning head coach Jon Cooper joked that his team could win myriad different ways but if an opponent wanted to get into a shootout, his guys liked to win that way.