Sentence examples for like shootings from inspiring English sources

For Mr. Ware and others, the display of long guns at the Riverhead Kmart is inappropriate alongside suburban development and problems like shootings in Riverhead's more depressed neighborhoods.

And many civilian deaths have arisen in contexts — like shootings of cars that failed to stop as they approached checkpoints — that rarely result in criminal charges or any public records.

Mr. Benjamin said this also led the news media and government officials to treat violence like the Nice attack differently from other mass attacks, like shootings at schools and churches that have been carried out by non-Muslims.

"I'm here because the real police are too busy chasing serious crimes like shootings and murders," said Mr. McConnell, craning his neck hoping to glimpse what was in the back of a van entering a scrap yard.

"Some reports help citizens avoid dangerous situations, like shootings or roadblocks, some of which may be linked to the war on drugs; but these aren't things we think the cartels would really worry about as they are pretty public incidents," he tells TechCrunch.

I kept hearing about all these terrible things happening – like shootings or terrorist attacks, things like that.

IT WAS LIKE SHOOTING fish in a barrel.

But over time, and with dismal repetition, will extreme natural disasters become like school shootings, with little thought given to the larger significance?

42 and 44, although obviously of the same set because of materials and treatment, look like shooting-gallery targets, with erratic patterns of recessed brick suggesting skeet practice.

In the mean time America-like school shootings are taking over the floor in Europe which makes politicians cry for more serious punishment.

Fearing a continued domino-like pattern of shootings, police are trying to act fast to forestall any acts of retaliation that could produce another string of violence.