Sentence examples for at the first shot from inspiring English sources

The Communist government of Laos would flee the capital at the first shot, Lo Cha Thao said.

He was sitting on the edge of his sofa, glaring at the first shot of the towers that morning, just moments before the first plane struck.

Mr. Onyango said the strange way the elephant carcasses were found, clumped in circles, with the calves in the middle for protection, was yet another sign that a helicopter had corralled them together because elephants usually scatter at the first shot.

Although it can be frustrating and it carries a lot of responsibility, it challenges us to do the very best we can at the first shot".

In addition, like most software design problems, even if developers are requested to design with exception handling beforehand, it is very difficult to get the right design at the first shot.

A Reuters news correspondent reported that the sultan had "fled at the first shot with all the leading Arabs, who left their slaves and followers to carry on the fighting", but other sources state that he remained in the palace for longer.

Bird on the left, in direct range, makes desperate attempt at exit as the second shot is fired.

The family, naturally, assumed it had been shot on the wing, and in the eye at that — the first shot going unnoticed — and a letter with this news was at once sent to my brother.

At the first shots, many of the galley slaves deserted their positions and fled below decks, leaving the French ship dangerously exposed.

Washington's defeat revealed his deficiencies as a strategist who split his forces, his inexperienced generals who misunderstood the situation, and his raw troops that fled in disorder at the first shots.

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