shoot down
verb
shot down; shooting down; shoots down
1
: to cause to fall by shooting
shot down the helicopter
especially
: to kill in this way
was shot down in cold blood
4
: discredit sense 2
shoot down a theory
Examples of shoot down in a Sentence
nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank
every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members
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Russia's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said its air defenses shot down 110 Ukrainian drones overnight.
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Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2025
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that overnight into Saturday its forces shot down more than 100 Ukrainian drones over six provinces in western and southern Russia.
—Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that overnight and early on Saturday, its forces shot down over 100 Ukrainian drones over six provinces in western and southern Russia.
—Illia Novikov, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2025
The whole idea of a system of space lasers shooting down nuclear missiles lobbed at us is, in addition to being prohibitively expensive, unworkable from a physics perspective.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
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Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2025
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that overnight into Saturday its forces shot down more than 100 Ukrainian drones over six provinces in western and southern Russia.
—Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that overnight and early on Saturday, its forces shot down over 100 Ukrainian drones over six provinces in western and southern Russia.
—Illia Novikov, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2025
The whole idea of a system of space lasers shooting down nuclear missiles lobbed at us is, in addition to being prohibitively expensive, unworkable from a physics perspective.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for shoot down
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20down. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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