(n.) A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Perrier award, meanwhile, prompted a personal crisis: for several years, Kitson seemed ashamed of having won it and afraid of the mainstream success that it, and Phoenix Nights, promised.
(2) The younger generation of comics – who include 2002 Perrier award winner Daniel Kitson, Josie Long and recent Edinburgh comedy award winner Tim Key – are pioneering a brand of standup that wishes no offence to anyone.
(3) She was one of the poshest people I had ever met – she drank Perrier water, which at that time was exotic beyond belief.
(4) For the past 27 years, Burns has also run what used to be known as the Perrier comedy awards in Edinburgh .
(5) He's a Perrier award-winner – with the sketch troupe The League of Gentlemen – but no household name.
(6) Kitson has had two career-defining experiences: starring as the recurring character Spencer the barman in the Peter Kay sitcom Phoenix Nights , and winning that 2002 Perrier.
(7) If you can buy a bottle of Perrier for £1 in my shop or down the road in a nice-looking shop for £1.50, then why wouldn’t you?” Poundland online?
(8) Concerning a hapless band attempting to find success with both music and women, it was Perrier-nominated at Edinburgh, found a home on Radio 2, then crossed the Atlantic to settle very nicely on HBO.
(9) The 2004 Perrier award winner appears at first glance to be finally doing a standup show.
(10) Now one of the most bankable comedians in the UK, McIntyre's career famously began in front of tiny audiences at the Edinburgh fringe, where he was nominated for the Perrier best newcomer award in 2003 .
(11) Sarah Kendall is a Perrier Award-nominated comedian and mother.
(12) Other winners of the prize – formerly known as the Perrier Award – include Frank Skinner, the League of Gentlemen and Daniel Kitson.
(13) Calculation of adequate gentamicin dosage regimen during steady-state based on individual pharmacokinetic parameters according to Gibaldi & Perrier was then studied in 35 newborn infants during therapy.
(14) Fry has since characterised his friendship with Laurie as "untainted by any sort of schoolboy rivalry" and together the threesome went on to dominate the Footlights comedy club, winning the first Perrier award at Edinburgh in 1981.
(15) I was putting my Perrier water in the fridge when the doorbell rang.
(16) We were pitted against them for the Perrier and I said I wouldn't mind if they beat us.
(17) The award, previously sponsored by Perrier and now sponsored by Fosters, is a major marker of new comedy talent and has been won by most well-known British comedians since it was first launched in 1981.
(19) Christie, Lyons and Porter all have shows at this year's fringe, three of more than a thousand comedy shows over August which include regulars such as Stewart Lee and Richard Herring and returners such as Frank Skinner, 23 years after he won the Perrier comedy award.
(20) Ten years after winning the Perrier award for comedy , Kitson – bearded, stammering, northern and little known beyond the live comedy and theatre circuits – is routinely cited as "the best comic of his generation" and lionised by other comics.
Shot
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Shoot
() imp. & p. p. of Shoot.
(a.) Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.
(v. t.) A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
(pl. ) of Shot
(n.) The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.
(n.) A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.
(n.) Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.
(n.) The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.
(n.) A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.
(v. t.) To load with shot, as a gun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
(3) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(4) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(5) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
(6) "They couldn't understand until I said 'No, because I'm a big shot now, because I am in Wild Wild West and I have, like, 10 covers coming out, and I want a bigger part.'
(7) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(8) That’s why I thought: ‘I hope Tyson wins – even if he never gives me a shot.’ As long as the heavyweight titles are out of Germany we could have some interesting fights.
(9) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(10) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(11) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(12) At least Depay departed having had a shot on target, something his manager will probably offer as proof United are improving.
(13) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
(14) When you’ve got a man with a longer jab, you can’t throw single shots.
(15) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(16) Michael Brown’s parents, appearing on the Today show on Tuesday, said they believe the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, would be alleviated by the prosecution of the officer who shot and killed their son.
(17) Learn from the masters The best way to recognise a good shot is to look at lots of other photographs.
(18) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
(19) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
(20) The film was shot in Monastir, Tunisia, for $4m, with financing from George Harrison's HandMade Films company, and each of the Pythons plays at least three roles.