How to Use active shooter in a Sentence

active shooter

noun
  • There was no active shooter and no threat was found.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2026
  • No active shooter was found and no shots were fired.
    — Morgan Rynor, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But that’s what we’re trained to do — go after active shooters.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 June 2024
  • There was no active shooter, and the mall reopened after about an hour.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • As a school counselor, active shooter training weighed heavy on her heart and mind.
    — Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
  • Today, stop, drop, and roll has been replaced with active shooter drills.
    — Sarah Scott, Parents, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Experts say the best response to an active shooter is a forceful one.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 22 May 2024
  • An active shooter was on campus, and their friend was hiding in the library.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
  • An agent took people who were inside to a more secure area and said there was an active shooter.
    — Jamie Stengle, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
  • That can be an active shooter call, bomb threat or any other violent crime.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Earlier on in the class, the teenager had asked her if the school had an active shooter drill.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 16 Feb. 2026
  • My younger sister called me and said there was an active shooter at Jackie’s school.
    — Michelle Tauber, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
  • That’s when all hell broke loose, and an active shooter arrived at Pitt Fest.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 8 Jan. 2026
  • No active shooter was located there, and no shots were ever fired.
    — Marybel Rodriguez, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • It is safely locked, so in the case of an active shooter the teacher has to get the key to unlock the gun.
    — For The Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024
  • And my daughter goes to school and there was an active shooter on her campus within that same month, as well.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 July 2024
  • Then an active shooter alert from the university pinged his phone.
    — Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Police said the nature of the call was changed to an active shooter call as officers were on the way.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2024
  • And because the rest of the staff knew exactly how to respond to an active shooter threat.
    — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Police had for months reported a huge surge in fake claims about active shooters at schools and colleges.
    — Jeff Amy, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Sometimes such force is necessary to protect lives from a grave threat, such as an active shooter.
    — Ben Jones, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Sometimes such force is necessary to protect lives from a grave threat, such as an active shooter.
    — Ben Jones, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Her husband called her at work and told her there was an active shooter at Oxford High.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Police were called to the scene after receiving calls about an active shooter.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 6 July 2024
  • An active shooter was on campus — and police were still searching for a suspect.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025
  • For some students, the response to an active shooter on their campus was all too familiar.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The shooting comes after a wave of active shooter hoaxes across the country brought panic to the start of the school year.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And even if a school does have an SRO, they may not be armed or equipped to respond to an active shooter.
    — Savannah Tryens-Fernandes | [email protected], al, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Here’s what to know about the latest incidents, and about false active shooter reports more broadly.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This threat comes amid a rise in active shooter threats at universities nationwide.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025

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