Sentence examples for shooting for it from inspiring English sources

If that was the effect our hostess was shooting for, it was slightly spoiled by her guests, who were all smoking like chimneys.

"I was pretty much shooting for it from the fourth inning on".

That's what we were shooting for". For the Rangers, it seems, there is no end to the public humiliation.

We had just shot for it and I had lost.

"If you want to shoot for it, that would be the recipe to do it".

"I'll give him a chance to shoot for it, though," Scott joked.

We shot for it and Conley lost and had to go get food.

"If I put up a plaque outside, I'd be shot for it," he said sourly.

Is a documentary still a documentary if no original material has been shot for it?

We have the right to have an opinion and voice it without being detained or shot for it.

Occasionally flashy, always steady and determined, Smith's style is simple: find a hole and shoot for it.