Sentence Examples:
"Not by a long shot," Nick Marsh cried.
It was a long shot, but worth trying!
I figure that we ought to take no more long shots than we have to.
I have been chained to that galley thirty years, a long shot.
My only chance was to take this long shot.
He fired another long shot with his rifle, but missed again.
In our minds, but not in the mind of Farmer Baldwin, by a long shot.
Paradoxically I feel rich, even though it's a long shot that I'm broke flat.
"Not by ten thousand long shots!"
Best party this year, by a long shot.
That was a mighty long shot to make.
It was a long shot from where Waring lay.
It was a good long shot even for daylight, and I had a rifle I knew nothing about.
Several times Cushion lay flat, and we thought he was going to risk a long shot.
It was a long-shot prophecy.
"I got a long shot at him and killed his big white horse."
I ain't a dead one by a long shot yet!
That isn't dull work, by a long shot.
There may be such a chap, all right, but his name isn't Hastings by a long shot.
"Not by a long shot," was the answer.
That can not be said about everybody by a long shot!
Now we'll get back, and fire our first long shot.
Three hundred and fifty yards is a very long shot.
"This isn't the bottom of it yet, not by a long shot."
It is important to make long shots thus reducing the amount of individual error.
That's more'n I'd a done by a long shot.
We did not venture to press the matter beyond long shots.
Not by a long shot he did not!
In my opinion, he's a cleverer fellow than Davenport, by a long shot.
"It was a grand long shot!"
Solomon put his face in shape for a long shot.
"That's all you get paid for doing, but that ain't all you have to do, by a long shot!"
Not by a long shot, or the rest of the profession would stand idle.
We nearly got one of 'em with a long shot.
It was a long shot for a revolver: nevertheless it took effect.
Marriage isn't what it's cracked up to be, by a long shot.
One vessel tried the effect of a long shot, but we could afford to laugh at her.
Cried Barbican as enthusiastically as his companions; "all's not over yet by a long shot!"
A long shot, Bill, between ourselves, but nothing lost if it misses.
A career in the arts is a risky long-shot kind of business.
I've not done by a long shot.
It was a long shot, with a thousand chances of missing.
A long shot, and hard to be equalled by the crack rifles of the present day.
All you can do is wait till he breaks cover down below, an' try a long shot.
Thank goodness I haven't got to that yet by a long shot.
Old man Dubois ain't his only customer, by a long shot.
I turned to literature, and he began drifting around the world for long shots.
Not by a long shot, my child!
I wasn't always here by a long shot.
He is not out of the woods by a long shot.
He saw the girl running, pulled a weapon from his hip and tried a long shot.
This case isn't settled yet, by a long shot.
Fred determined on a long shot, for he was a fair marksman.
I'm not done yet, not by a long shot.
It's as Borden said; things ain't what they seem, not by a long shot!
This ain't the old Coralie, not by a long shot.
And a very long shot, too!
The Baby forever for a long shot.
Snipers told thrilling tales of long shots.
It ain't all over, not by a long shot.
You sent the ball a tremendous long shot.
Let me try my skill at a long shot.
It's a long shot, but long shots sometimes come off.
Your long shot has come off.
We all thought it was very grand of father to take such a long shot as that.
"Not by a long shot," put in Poke Stover.
Poses as an ignorant laborer, but he's not ignorant by a long shot.
And he immediately drew up at long shots, and drove an arrow into his side.
He's not dead by a long shot, though he deserves to be.
He hasn't, not by a long shot.
Of course not such a long shot, but a more difficult one.
There were to be no long shots with us.
It was a long shot, but Larry was impatient.
It was a long shot, and I was taking slow and careful aim, when he touched my arm.
It was a long shot that Roberts made, and down hill.
Dunham, Drew, and I took long shots at them, but they were far outside effective range.
It was a long shot, much too long for any of the Indians, but not too long for Henry.
Do you think I could reach him with a long shot, Henry?
When players become expert, one long shot will send the ball to the end of the line.
"Not by a long shot; they're all as yellow as guineas."
It's the worst country I ever travelled in, by a long shot.
I am the oldest man here, but not an old man yet by a long shot.
That's not the end, by a long shot.
It is on the first floor, you remember; so I can take a long shot.
"That's rather a long shot, isn't it?"
And it is not the fault of the railroads by a long shot.
No, Jim is not dead by a long shot.
Tell them that they have not got us yet by a long shot.
It was a long shot, but he could not wait to take deliberate aim; he fired.
She would not be the first victim by a long shot.
I don't consent, by a long shot.
"And it's a long shot Big Alec's making."
"Not by a long shot," he cried.
"Not by a long shot," replied Jack.
He weighed chances, long shots.
It was the long shot he had gambled on, the one chance he had to strike a blow.
It was a long shot and a difficult one for even an expert.
It was a long shot, but the Jerry was lined up neatly in his sight.