WordNet
Usage examples of "duck shot".
They would wait till they saw the redcoats, then load up the tin cans that burst like duck shot from the gun barrels.
He would almost have preferred it had the Web of Hercules been there ahead of them and promptly taken a sitting-duck shot at them.
The water-drops beat like duck shot against the window of the railway-carriage containing Stephen and Elfride.
The French had switched to grapeshot that left the cannon barrels like duck shot from a fowling piece.
The musket balls flared from the cannons' mouths like duck shot, killing six or seven men at a time, and after a while the French gunners abandoned their efforts and just hid in the houses at the back of the quay.
Impacting directly behind the rotor, an American AMRAMM missile literally blew off the blades of the helicopter, which then fell like a duck shot out of the air, impacting with a deafening explosion in the countryside, a little over a quarter mile on the other side of the estate wall to the east.