(n.) One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
(n.) One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are 30 new weapons, including a new class of marksman rifles; Perks now have a points system, allowing you to buy several weaker options or opt for one or two really meaty specials.
(2) A former Navy Seal who went on to write a bestselling book chronicling his life as the US's most prolific marksman has been shot dead at a gun range in Texas .
(3) He added: "If you are familiar with a holographic sight, it's built up in such a way that you could have given it to your grandmother and she would have been a super marksman.
(4) This trouncing of Bournemouth was the first of seven games the lethal marksman may miss for Manchester City.
(5) Duggan’s death on 4 August 2011 at the hands of a police marksman triggered riots across the capital in which shops were looted, buildings set alight and standoffs with police occurred.
(6) Another player hoping to head to Germany to revive a career is Tottenham’s anti-marksman Roberto Soldado who is hoping the goals in the Bundesliga are a foot wider and are hung 20 foot up in the air so he might find them more often.
(7) For him, it was Ian Wright, and he still seems a little starry-eyed when he recounts how he signed for West Ham at the age of 16, and Wright took the time to stay behind after training to practise drills with him, and pass on tips designed to hone a marksman's eye and develop his cunning.
(8) "I didn't want to personalise [the tragedy] and blame the marksman.
(9) On Sunday, exactly a month later, both arrived together at the the Zeinhom morgue – but this time Fahmy was dead in a battered brown coffin, shot through his right temple by a police marksman, after a night-time pro-Morsi march on Saturday morning turned into a massacre.
(10) They also said the marksman’s mistaken belief that Duggan had a gun should have meant the jury were told not to conclude the killing was lawful unless they also concluded the mistake was reasonable.
(11) Shooting a suspect in the arm or the leg would be difficult for John Wayne, never mind the most skilled marksman on the force, said Candace McCoy , a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.
(12) But Liverpool, sharper in all facets than of late and showing the obvious benefit of a proven marksman in their ranks, held firm to release some of the pressure on Rodgers.
(13) Duggan was shot by a Scotland Yard marksman after armed officers stopped the taxi in which he was travelling in Tottenham, north London, in August 2011, sparking riots across England.
(14) The marksman was granted anonymity because of fears of reprisals and was known at inquest into the death only as V53.
(15) In January, an inquest jury decided Duggan was not holding a gun when shot by police but also found the decision by marksman "V53" to open fire was lawful.
(16) Some sources suggested it was a Basij volunteer on a motorcycle, while others have attributed it to a marksman on the roof of a nearby house.
(17) A jury at the inquest into the 29-year-old's death found he had been killed lawfully by a police marksman, despite also finding that he was not carrying a gun when he was shot.
(18) When they were on the pavement, a police marksman immediately jumped out from behind the bus.
(19) An inquest jury this month found he was lawfully killed by a police marksman despite being unarmed when he was shot.
(20) If Agüero appeared every inch the expert marksman as he toe-poked Navas’s deflected left-wing cross into the roof of the net from close range, Billy Jones looked a thoroughly wrong-footed right back.
Marksmanship
Definition:
(n.) Skill of a marksman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared to pre-march values, post-march marksmanship accuracy decreased 26% for number of target hits and 33% for distance from the centroid of the target.
(2) Because of the precision of his marksmanship, very little of his ruthless satire has dated: he is forever topical.
(3) The effects of exercise and high altitude (3,700 m to 4,300 m) on marksmanship accuracy and sighting time were quantified in 16 experienced marksmen.
(4) Exercise reduced marksmanship accuracy (p less than 0.05) but did not affect sighting time.
(5) These latter two types of agents may exhibit finer marksmanship than do diuretics in opposing the etiology of low-renin hypertension, for there is growing reason to believe that sodium-volume-mediated vasoconstriction is related to abnormal calcium influx and possibly to abnormal alpha-adrenergic traffic.
(6) Some elements of training could contribute to the abuses below, including employment of riot control techniques, platoon ambushes, building and street clearance, company attack and marksmanship skills.” Two of the arrested soldiers are awaiting sentencing after admitting their part in sexual assaults.
(7) Also, the interrelation of eyedness and handedness on marksmanship scores is important but has been largely ignored.
(8) But it is not just his trickery, his pace, his artistry and his marksmanship that make Hazard such an invaluable component of José Mourinho’s Chelsea squad, it is his durability.
(9) This research examined the effects of pure and crossed dextrality on the marksmanship scores of cadets in the Reserve Officers Training Corps at their respective institutions.
(10) The tests consisted of marksmanship (score for a 5-shot group), snowshoe running (time to cover 1700 m), anaerobic power (Wingate test), and performance on 5 cognitive tests (preferred hand tapping, 4-choice reaction time, pattern recognition, memory search, and code substitution; each test scored as % correct and # completed).
(11) The opportunities to show such marksmanship again were denied Joachim Löw's line-up.
(12) During summer advanced training camp, subjects fired M-16A1 rifles for marksmanship qualifying scores (score range 0 to 40).
(13) Exercise and acute altitude exposure had similar but independent detrimental effects on marksmanship.
(14) Acute altitude exposure reduced marksmanship accuracy, and decreased sighting time (p less than 0.05).