Sentence examples for shoots itself from inspiring English sources

By not offering enough evidence of the criticisms that Hitchens's book drew, the movie shoots itself in the foot.

On "The Late Show," Colbert aired a gag in which the "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoon bill sings "I'm Just a Bill," then shoots itself.

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Time and again the government shoots itself in the foot when it comes to prisons in a futile effort to seem tougher than its political opponents.

The company never shoots itself in the foot and, by now, Darroch should have a keen sense of the prices UK customers will tolerate.

It's bullying and name-calling to denounce people as anti-Semitic because they won't embrace the policies of a far-right Israeli government that regularly shoots itself in the foot.

Canada may have just shot itself in the foot.

The photo shoot itself, Mr. Cenicola said, was embarrassingly painful.

China can't shoot Taiwan without shooting itself.

The shooting itself not captured by the dashboard camera.

Yet wasn't New Labour shooting itself in the foot?