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warning shots

n. (warning shot English)

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Warning Shots

Warning Shots is a compilation album/ Greatest hits by the Swedish band The Haunted. It was released in Europe on March 9, 2009, and in the U.S.A. on April 7, 2009.

Usage examples of "warning shots".

So then, you may fire warning shots if necessary, but only if it becomes neccessary.

So then, you may fire warning shots if necessary, but only if it becomes necessary.

Bullets spattered the ancient wall of the Bloody Tower, warning shots telling us we'd better stop running or else .

A small mob armed with rocks and miscellaneous weapons had stormed the front gates of the embassy sometime in the wee hours and had been driven off when the Marines on the perimeter fired warning shots over their heads.

The musketry fire spluttered out abruptly, and then up the path they came, Laird at their head, half a dozen men under a young lieutenant bringing up the rear and turning to keep back the nearest enemy with warning shots.

The Danish frigate had fired warning shots at the British vessels, but had been forced to strike her colours after half an hour's fierce battle.