well-aimed
(of a missile, punch, etc) having been pointed or directed accurately at a person or object: a well-aimed, precise blow
(of a comment, criticism, etc) obviously and accurately directed at a person, object, etc: a well-aimed expression of contempt
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How to use well-aimed in a sentence
Then, at around dawn, two well-aimed mortar shots killed two more former Navy SEALS, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
General: We Didn't Even Try To Save American Lives In Benghazi | Eli Lake | May 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe building's exterior was undamaged and this assault was too well-aimed.
The well-aimed shots of the Americans were beginning to tell forcibly against the Spaniards.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanAway it bounded, with the ease and certainty of a well-aimed arrow, over a ridge of splintered rocks.
Menotah | Ernest G. HenhamWherever your glory-toothed lightning bites, it crunches cattle, like a well-aimed bolt.
Sacred Books of the East | Various
Several of the besiegers fell before the well-aimed shots of the besieged.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge HemyngAlmost at the same instant three or four other shots rang out, and each proved sufficiently well aimed to reach its mark.
A Middy of the King | Harry Collingwood
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