He's Pesita's head guy," and he drew his revolver and took a single shot in the direction of his former comrades.
For five minutes the silence of the night was unbroken, then from the east came a single shot, followed immediately by a scattering fusillade and a chorus of hoarse cries.
He raised his revolver and fired a single shot in the direction of the howling savages.
In the afternoon, they all gave themselves up, without having fired a single shot, and without attempting to make any kind of resistance.
He could not do it with a single shot, as the thong was broader than the bullet, but he had calculated that he might effect his purpose with several.
Stalking in upon one is easy enough, and perhaps obtaining a single shot; but when the animal trots off through the thick jungle, it is tedious work following him.
A single shot at them was all I wanted, and that in the gun would do.
He says: "I found them invariably in pairs, evidently mated, and often sitting so close together that two could be obtained at a single shot if desired.
During their aerial excursions, when whirling about, they crowd so close together that many are killed at a single shot.
Sometimes the flocks are so densely packed that hunters kill as many as 20 at a single shot.
On the third day the forts commenced a brisk fire for several hours: the Ladrones did not return a single shot, but weighed in the night and dropped down the river.
The Ladrones never returned a single shot, but always kept in readiness to board, and the Portuguese were careful never to allow them an opportunity.
The words had hardly left his lips ere there came the sound of a single shotaway to the left.
Without a moment's aim, he fired a single shot at the spot.
Then there was renewed activity below and a few minutes later the sound of a single shot.
It is true that the distant mountains had sent the echoes of the detonation far and wide, but a single shot didn't have much significance at a time like this when our country resounded with the thunder of cannon day in day out!
The two battles of the seventh and eighth of May were decided in the first ten minutes, before we had fired a single shot.
The little gunboat was eliminated from the contest before it could fire a single shot, and now it lay broadside to the enemy, and utterly at the latter's mercy.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single shot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
