Sentence examples for purpose of shooting from inspiring English sources
The gun had been heavily loaded, with nearly double the usual proportion of shot, for the purpose of shooting on the wing.
After the hearing, Christopher J. Christie, the United States attorney in Newark, told reporters that Mr. Lakhani was a "significant arms dealer" who had promised to deliver missiles "specifically for the purpose of shooting an American commercial airliner out of the sky".
Within days of the Kuenzlis' departure, my friends began showing up unannounced for the purpose of shooting eight ball and cranking up the volume on the Bang & Olufsen sound system the Kuenzlis had at some point so fortuitously installed, then maybe getting wrecked and taking the rowboat out on the glittering surface of the lake while the trees flamed and the swans bobbed in our wake.
"She was locked into the bathroom and you armed yourself with the sole purpose of shooting and killing her".
Mr Nel, who referred to the athlete's evidence as a "snowball of lies", used this to argue that even by this version he should be found guilty of murder with intent as he was aware of the likely outcome of his actions having armed himself with the sole purpose of shooting whoever was behind the toilet door.
Middleton set up the California Motion Picture Company CMPCC) in San Rafael in 1912 for the purpose of shooting promotional footage of the automobiles he was selling.
These are lions bred in captivity for the sole purpose of being shot, inside fenced-off enclosures, by wealthy trophy hunters.
The polemical juxtaposition of civic humanist and liberal individualist paradigms of public consciousness has tended to accentuate differences and to reduce the rich complexity of the historical and social reality that they seek to capture to caricatures set up for the purpose of being shot down.
Sometimes, however, evoking the Holocaust for the purposes of narrative pathos can be the literary equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.
Guns exist for one purpose — to shoot stuff.
