Sentence examples for shooting matches from inspiring English sources

The royal shooting matches became a tradition.

Blackfoot boys who won shooting matches were allowed to wear feathers in their hair.

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.

Groups of boys engaged in shooting matches and play battles, the winners receiving acclaim from their elders; the losers were praised if they had fought bravely.

These were called "shooting matches," and most of the time they took place away from the paying customers, for the benefit of those in the business and in the know.

For months prior to August 2008, "unidentified troops" masquerading as local insurgents grabbed more and more control over Georgia's separatist regions, and were getting into a growing number of shooting matches with local law enforcement.

If it goes down, the whole shooting match goes down.

"This is the whole shooting match," he said.

Hunting as sport was reflected only in the very popular shooting match.

Investors wanted change and the Icelandics brought the tantalising prospect of buying the whole shooting match.

Gun attacks That summer, the St Paul's carnival turned into a shooting match.