Sentence examples for and the first shot from inspiring English sources

It's the first of the studio's stop-motion features to be shot in digital and the first shot in 3-D, developments that some Aardman purists may find the outrageous equivalent of Bob Dylan going electric or David Fincher going digital.

If servers are to maintain control of the point, they must consider the serve, and the first shot they hit after the serve, as one unit.

"The fear is we were going to see a rollover, and the first shot over the bow was what we saw out of Italy yesterday with the elections," Mr. Kenny said.

So I was nonplussed when I switched on, a little late, to hear that after one hole McIlroy's four-shot lead had been halved, and the first shot I saw him play careered into a bunker.

There are a number of elegant touches, starting with the opening credits; Mr. Luhrmann reminds us that the stage was the home of the musical, and the first shot of "Moulin Rouge" is framed with a proscenium arch as a conductor leads an orchestra through a playing of the 20th Century Fox fanfare.

Then again, she was now with a man who was essentially literary, not political, and when, at Wilson's insistence, she tried her hand at fiction, and the first shot out of the box came cool, calculating "Cruel and Barbarous Treatment" — the story that would eventually become the startling first chapter in "The Company She Keeps" — she knew that this was where her writing talent best connected.

"That's a pretty deflating goal, when you're coming out and you're all excited about playing and then the first shot goes in," Boudreau said.

Southern states, which refused to abide by the results of a presidential election, seceded from the Union and fired the first shot on Fort Sumter, did.

Jamie Langenbrunner skated up the slot and took the first shot on Vokoun after the puck hopped over the stick of Predators defenseman Karlis Skrastins.

We didn't share the ball and took the first shot that came our way.

He went to the line for a one and one and missed the first shot, while Rosenbluth caught the rebound.