How to Use one-shot in a Sentence

one-shot

adjective
  • All these one-shots are part of a whole movie sequence.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Crossroads turned out to be a one-shot fluke for her movie career.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Getting close for a one-shot kill has always been the challenge.
    — Brad Fenson, Outdoor Life, 1 Nov. 2023
  • After that, Cobbs had one-shot roles on the most notable TV dramas of their time.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 3 July 2024
  • The four other four one-shots will be released one-by-one on a monthly basis.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 June 2024
  • Years later, some would claim that the magazine was a lark, that it was intended to be a one-shot deal.
    — Sean Howe, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023
  • So Bradley entered the final round with a one-shot lead over Scott and just two ahead of 24-year-old rising star Ludvig Åberg.
    — Brody Miller, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
  • The second is in the last mission where there’s a segment with a bunch of Thresher ships which will one-shot you with rockets unless you are locked to 30.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Gagné explained that a custom cable was built for the one-shot movement.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Conversions would produce plenty of one-shot income, but not the long-term cash stream brought by high rents.
    — Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
  • Dustin Johnson, with a one-shot lead playing the final hole at Whistling Straits, is penalized two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker on the last hole.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • While that could be viewed as a one-shot waiver to resolve the A’s stadium odyssey, a precedent has nonetheless been set.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • Holding a one-shot lead on 16, the Northern Irishman remarkably missed a par putt from two feet six inches away.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Unfortunately, Camp David was proposed as a one-shot deal, make it or break it.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • As most people know, most movie scenes are not one-shot wonders and require several takes.
    — Raven Brunner, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Horschel, who started the final round with a one-shot lead in his bid to win his first major, dropped back around the turn and birdied his last three holes for a 68 for his best finish in a major.
    — Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024
  • Moments later, Spaun, who started the day with a one-shot lead, found himself with a chip that looked nearly identical and skipped it up next to the cup for a tap-in birdie.
    — Gabby Herzig, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Homa, who grew up about 30 miles away, attended this tournament as a kid and then won it two years ago, started with a one-shot lead and stayed step-for-step with Rahm.
    — Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Within minutes of the film’s start, Maxine looks straight to camera in a brief but genius homage to the famous one-shot monologue that ended West’s last movie.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 June 2024
  • Some numbers, like the one-shot sequence in Episode 2, are grounded in reality.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?
    — Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
  • McIlroy had already birdied 16 and taken a one-shot advantage.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Johnson had entered the day at Portland’s Waverley Country Club clinging to a one-shot lead at 4 under par.
    — Jodom, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The Mad Fold-In was invented as a would-be one-shot in 1964 — a sendup of magazine fold-outs popularized in news magazines and Playboy.
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The thriller thrives on the concept of a one-shot sequence and belongs to an eventual trilogy currently in development, where all three films take place over the course of one night.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Some cocktails take weeks of trial and error—particularly at Death & Co., at the time perhaps the most creative and precise cocktail bar in the country—but the Kingston Negroni was a one-shot hit.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 6 July 2024
  • And the biggest advantage may come from adopting a mindset of continuous health versus a one-shot focus on getting healthy that fades over time.
    — Jason Andersen, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Co-created with star Stephen Graham, the four-part series uses a daring one-shot for each episode to call attention to widespread reports of young boys involved in knife crimes.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2025
  • England’s Sam Horsfield ended the opening round with a one-shot lead after carding a six-under 66, a brilliant round which included six birdies and nothing over par.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Clark’s historic round at the famous links course in California included two eagles and nine birdies, giving him a one-shot lead ahead of Sweden’s Ludvig Åberg.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024

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