Sentence examples for mere shooting from inspiring English sources

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Barça's eight goals away at Almeria, and Madrid's five at home to Athletic Bilbao, were mere shooting matches for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo — again.

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But it is no mere shoot'em-up.

Louisville's Smith is not afraid of the big stage, but he really struggled against both Manhattan and Saint Louis, totaling a mere 32percentt shooting and 13 turnovers.

In this series, Westbrook is averaging 21.8 points per game on a mere 35percentt shooting, to go along with just 4.8 assists per game and 5.3 turnovers, and, he's still been a net negative in the plus/minus department.

For Naji, the letter was completely unexpected; its mere delivery shot him with fear.

Making matters worse, Nash -- one of the league's greatest all-time shooters -- is taking a mere six shot attempts per game, almost half his career average.

The Swiss people were seen by Nazi ideologists as a mere off-shoot of the German nation, although one led astray by decadent Western ideals of democracy and materialism.

According to "Completely Cuckoo," the role was turned down by five stars -- Ann Bancroft, Colleen Dewhurst, Geraldine Page, Ellen Burstyn and Angela Lansbury -- before Ms. Fletcher was cast a mere week before shooting began.

Even if it was justified, the mere act of shooting someone can be a traumatic event.

Drug dealers forcing mere children to shoot other children to protect their turf?

For the Argentine director Lisandro Alonso, whose four features have all screened at Cannes, fictional frameworks are mere pretexts to shoot with specific people in specific places: the pampas, the jungles, the frozen wilds of Tierra del Fuego.

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