What's the difference between markswoman and sharpshooter?
Markswoman
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Knight graduated from being her father’s sharpshooter dummy (he allegedly shot her twice when they were performing) to a circus stuntwoman, bareback horse-rider and pistol-spinning markswoman.
(2) Knowing how to handle a firearm was not an eccentric skill, and Emily was the best markswoman in the house.
Sharpshooter
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I was afraid they might retaliate," she said, saying she feared for herself and her family after looking up secret service on the internet and seeing that some agents were sharpshooters.
(2) If this were an arms race, the sharpshooting drone would make toast of the rusty Jamaican six-shooter.
(3) If it wasn't for bad luck.. ") Meanwhile the Los Angeles Clippers will have to live without long distance sharpshooter J.J. Redick for 6-8 weeks after an MRI revealed a fracture in his right hand .
(4) "They are prepared to take the risk and they are getting sharpshooters and snipers in as part of an effort to take the British on.
(5) SERGEANT, ANONYMOUS Paratrooper, 2002, Nablus We took over a central house, set up positions, and one of the sharpshooters identified a man on a roof, two roofs away, I think he was between 50 and 70 metres away, not armed.
(6) Knight graduated from being her father’s sharpshooter dummy (he allegedly shot her twice when they were performing) to a circus stuntwoman, bareback horse-rider and pistol-spinning markswoman.
(7) a sharpshooter"; the novel "wears its wisdom with a shrug".
(8) Roads will be closed off and hundreds of sharpshooters placed on the rooftops.
(9) On Friday, as European justice ministers gathered in the country that currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, there were sharpshooters on the roofs, sniffer dogs roaming the streets and more than 2,000 riot police outside government offices and hotels.
(10) Since the Turkish government tore up a two-year truce with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) in July, it has deployed a new weapon in the towns and villages of the south-east: sharpshooters.
(11) In 1943 he was drafted into the US Army Air Corps, where he became a sharpshooter, a military policeman, a gunnery instructor, and a specialist in the prototypes of computer-aided bomb-sights and gun turrets.
(12) Handsome sharpshooting marksmen track the pirates through the windows of their lifeboat.
(13) By the time it was over, in September 1992, a US Marshal and Weaver’s 14-year-old son had died in a shootout and an FBI sharpshooter had killed Weaver’s wife while she cradled a 14-month-old baby in her arms.