Sentence examples similar to shootings fish from inspiring English sources

Set in a pre-Civil War New York, "Gangs of New York" revolves around the rivalry between Irish immigrants and nativist street gangs, and it features any number of gang brawls, stabbings, shootings, fish-hookings, rat-baitings, head-clubbings and ear-chawings.

IT WAS LIKE SHOOTING fish in a barrel.

Bottom line: the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel part of this antiterrorism war is over.

Rather, the fish's exceptional water-shooting ability could be an adaptive behavior, comparable to how other fish jump out of water at precise moments to catch prey, he says.

Collisions with boats and shootings, oil spills, pollution and entanglements with fishing gear are among the reasons that otters have not rebounded despite protection since 1977, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service said.

"Shootings inside, shootings outside".

"But hardly ever shootings".

Shootings and murders fell, too.

Drugs and shootings are inescapable.

She died in the shootings.

The shootings remain under investigation.