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Target practice   /tˈɑrgət prˈæktəs/   Listen
Target practice

noun
1.
Practice in shooting at targets.






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"Target practice" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the approaching sunset. The hawser, however, parted, and with it the last hope of escape. Great numbers of the crew had already been killed and wounded by the relentless pounding the ship had received from her enemies, for whom, toward the end, the affair became little more than safe target practice, with a smooth sea. As yet no voice had been raised in favor of submission; but now entreaty was made to Porter to spare the lives of the remnant that was left, by ceasing a resistance which had become not ...
— Admiral Farragut • A. T. Mahan



Words linked to "Target practice" :   recitation, practice session, practice, exercise, drill



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