Sentence examples for a first shot from inspiring English sources

When Brown tried to run away after taking a first shot, Johnson recounted, Wilson ran after him and shot him once or twice from behind.

There was no threat — just a first shot across the bows".

A first shot earlier than anyone has ever posited gives a plausible answer.

It didn't work, but it was a first shot across the patriarchal bows.

He calls the list "a first shot at fantasy fund-raising".

Not too many people get a first shot, so I have to put everything I have into that first shot.

A third shot also missed.

A third shot did not hit anyone.

And it was a second shot, too!

There was a second shot, then a third.

Not many toys get a second shot at success.