case shot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of case shot
First recorded in 1665–75
Example Sentences
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This is not the first time the 30-year-old rapper has seen his efforts to revive the case shot down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025
On Wednesday, the judge overseeing the case shot down the pop icon's request to remove her father Jamie as conservator.
From Fox News ● Jul. 1, 2021
Rickie Fowler, a late commit to Wyndham looking to make a Ryder Cup case, shot a bogey-free three-under 67.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 18, 2016
The projectiles are of three kinds—ordinary shells, shrapnel shells, and case shot.
From With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service by Burne, C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate)
Singularly unemotional, he stood steady at Tell el-Kebir after Arabi Pasha and all his officers, from general to subaltern, had fled, and gave way only when decimated by the British field artillery firing case shot.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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