How to Use scattershot in a Sentence

scattershot

adjective
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  • That scattershot revival had the wit to cast Sir Patrick way against type.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Without a clear sense of purpose, Crash feels a bit scattershot as Kehlani turns up the heat and racks up the jams.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • Some states aren't waiting, but the process can be scattershot.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst, Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The final third of the episode plays out in the scattershot manner that derails Brooklyn Nine-Nine from time to time.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
  • This time, Valve’s approach is a bit more advanced—and a bit more scattershot.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 11 July 2019
  • The album is a bit of a scattershot affair, jumping all over the hip-hop spectrum.
    — Luca Cimarusti, Chicago Reader, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Adding to the second-guessing about who should be getting shots is the scattershot feel of the rollout, and the sense that some might be gaming the system.
    — Candice Choi, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Yet even the pleasure of the concert scenes remains scattershot.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
  • If her projects seem scattershot, Hunt says that’s by design.
    — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2018
  • This signature land use pattern isn't the same in the UK, where the farms are laid out in a much more chaotic, scattershot fashion.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2017
  • Running through all of that makes for a long and somewhat scattershot keynote.
    — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 8 June 2018
  • At the same time, the company’s approach to banning users has been scattershot.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Some critics wrote it off as scattershot and uneven, laden with pop songs that were anything but sweet.
    — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 3 May 2018
  • The hip-hop star and fashion mogul has launched a scattershot campaign that many of Trump's allies believe could siphon votes away from Biden.
    — Jonathan Lemire , David Eggert, Star Tribune, 21 Sep. 2020
  • There was some fear in his kitchen that their brand of hot food served out of a box would lead to scattershot negative reviews online.
    — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 8 July 2020
  • The scattershot offense with no real rhythm or identity is still the same.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2019
  • But many critics found the new run of episodes, which moved the action to Europe, to be scattershot, trippy and weird … and not a good weird, but a head-scratching, off-putting weird.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • Already, some in city government are trying to pull back from the scattershot tax method.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 16 July 2019
  • Instead, the focus in the opening scene is on a fractious and scattershot meeting of the school’s parents’ council.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2019
  • The same goes for its scattershot comedy, which ranges from the perversely dark to the frankly juvenile.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • At the time, emergency medicine was a rather scattershot affair.
    — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Higley’s office still holds boxes of papers with the five-pad imprint amid dark scattershot loose soot.
    — Elizabeth Miller, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The Bureau of Prisons has been accused of missteps and scattershot policies since the virus reached the U.S. earlier this year.
    — Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak, Star Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
  • All of that points to an alarming lack of efficiency, and that starts with Bortles’s scattershot right arm.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • In states where more students took the choice to enroll in nonpublic schools, though, the results have been fairly scattershot.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Because that preceded two trades up the draft board to get Wentz, the Eagles took heat for what some believed was a scattershot approach.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague’s book shows how scattershot January 6 was—and why a repeat could be harder to stop.
    — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Most disconcerting was the return of the old Josh Allen — the one with scattershot aim and wild, dangerous scrambles.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The scattershot attack on Harris was interspersed with even stranger musings.
    — Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • The new film concocts a much more elaborate tale, yielding a scattershot narrative that’s more confusing than coherent.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2024

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