warning shot

Of course, it might just have been a warning shot, to let them know what they were in for.

Today and tomorrow we will have given a warning shot.

The move looked like a warning shot, and was treated as such.

The first round, said to be the warning shot, hit the apartment's window.

I try to fire a warning shot and it gets you in the spine.

I refer you all back to the first warning shot when this lot got in.

The crowd began to close in on us, so I fired off a warning shot.

Several warning shots were fired, but he did not stop.

Park then managed to draw her gun and fire a warning shot.

But the police fired only a few warning shots in the air.