Targets
['tɑːgɪts] or ['tɑrɡɪts]
Examples
- On the other side of the lawn, facing the targets, was pitched a real tent, with benches and garden-seats about it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He turned upon them his painfully circular eyes, surrounded by concentric lines like targets. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- People don't come with grudges and schemes of finishing their practice with live targets, I hope? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A series of 25,000 shots were fired thus, by eight gun pointers, at targets corresponding to the size of a battleship as seen at ranges of 1,500, 3,000, 6,000 and 9,000 yards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The little glass-knob insulators made seductive targets for ignorant sportsmen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checked by Jacques