The phrase "as the first shoot" is not correct and may be unclear in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing the initial growth or emergence of a plant or project, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The garden flourished beautifully, as the first shoot broke through the soil, signaling the start of spring."
Alternatives: "like the initial sprout" or "as the initial growth".
What I hope with all my heart is that this will not go down as just the first shooting vigil she remembers in a lifetime full of them, that she does not grow up believing that this is as safe as it gets in America.
No matter how often you sow seeds, the magic felt as the first shoots start to show is wondrous.
More cast members are expected to be announced soon as the first shooting day for the film is set for April in London's Pinewood Studios.
In its branching form, the station's 25-foot-high Church Street canopy, designed by Robert I. Davidson, the authority's chief architect, might come to be seen as a steel sprout, the first shoot of renewed life to emerge above ground.
Oregon was as cold in the second half as it was hot in the first, shooting 38.7% and making only three of 17 three-pointers (17.6%) after halftime.
Investigators are treating the first shooting as a workplace violence incident, according to Dave Fitz, a spokesman for the Baltimore FBI field office.
"This is a very worrying development as it's the second shooting in this area in just over a month," he said.
It was the third shooting in as many weeks on the estate, where armed police officers patrolled in unmarked cars this week as tensions remained high.
58-year-old Raymond Sears was wounded in a shooting outside a liquor store in Pomona, Calif., Friday; it was the third shooting in as many days in the city.
The killing spree, known as the "Walk of Death," is often referred to as the first mass shooting, not because no one had taken the lives of many victims before, but because the term is somewhat malleable, and, as a result, has become tightly linked to the modern day forms of mass aggression.
