Sentence examples for nearly shot from inspiring English sources

The description of Prince William being nearly shot appeared in the "Blackadder" royal gossip column, edited by Mr Goodman.

Malaquais fought for the Loyalists in Spain, where he was arrested as a Fascist provocateur by the Russians and nearly shot.

He said that a relative had lost her government job for political reasons and that he had once been caught in the middle of a gunfight in the crime-ridden capital and nearly shot.

The Queen, wandering through her grounds at 3 AM (why? What strange nightmares propelled her?) was mistaken for an intruder by one of her own guards and nearly shot.

First Werner Herzog paid homage to the film in 1979 by remaking it, at times nearly shot for shot, with Klaus Kinski -- who himself might have been the 70's graven image of sinister strangeness and dignified repulsiveness.

Forget that an armed citizen was on the scene in Tucson, and nearly shot a good Samaritan who had already disarmed Loughner.

Jack Black and Jimmy Fallon gave Extreme's '90s ballad a nearly shot-for-shot music video remake on Monday.

Direct references to the "Rich Man's Frug" include a nearly shot-for-shot recreation of the "who is it?" introduction, the cage and Greek sculptures surrounding a large stage, the two ladies back-to-back parting to reveal Beyonce with two male dancers, and many dance steps from "The Heavyweight" portion of Fosse's choreography.

This shifts the fluorescence of interest to unique detection frequencies with nearly shot-noise-limited detection, as no background signals are collected.

Signal visibilities in biological systems have been enhanced by up to 2 orders of magnitude, but further gains are possible as nearly shot-noise-limited detection is recovered.

Saari had fired a total of nearly 200 shots, including shots into the air.