Sentence examples for before the first shot from inspiring English sources

"How was that?" she asked, before the first shot was over.

Officials said the gun carried five bullets before the first shot was fired.

They were exposed in Texas long before the first shot was taken from 12 yards.

"It was won before the first shot was fired, in the hearts and minds of the American people".

(2) Before the first shot is fired in anger, have a crystal-clear objective and a well-defined endgame.

But in today's digital and virtual battlefield, the game can be over before the first shot gets fired.

"It was a week before the first shots were fired in Sarajevo.

Long before the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord, the Anglo-Saxon identity of American colonists was fraying, stretched thin by both political and demographic forces.

Even before the first shots were fired, Europe's statesmen were intent on weaving narratives designed to portray themselves as innocents responding to rival predatory aggressors.

Soon afterwards, Lt-Col Mirnov turned up to remind Colonel Mamchar that just half an hour was left before the first shots were to be fired.

Last month's attempted coup appears to have been real enough – but court documents suggest that it started to fall apart even before the first shots were fired.