Sentence examples for bullet the first from inspiring English sources

So even if Franz Ferdinand had dodged the bullet, the first world war might have happened anyway.* "Hit or Miss?

The album came into the charts at No 1 with a bullet – the first of their five consecutive No 1s.

Re Frank Rich's March 25 column about Stephen King's "Riding the Bullet," the first hit book distributed exclusively on the Internet: Grieve not for the printed book.

The bullet, the first of four Mr. Thompson said he had heard, cut through Mr. Thompson's shirt and sweater and hit him in the right shoulder, he said.

Then the program shifts to the lost bullet: the first of the three shots believed to have been fired that day, a bullet that was never found or fully accounted for.

Is Stephen King's "Riding the Bullet," the first hit book distributed exclusively through the Internet, speeding the end of the Gutenberg age and the dawn of a fully digitalized cultural world?

The first came from a Leon Osman bullet, the second kept out Bryan Oviedo's 20-yard strike.

"Bullet", the eleventh track from the album, is an uptempo pop song about suicide.

With guns, though, he had a modest success with a modest idea, guiding to passage a ban on so-called cop-killer bullets — "the first law ever to outlaw a round of ammunition," he noted with satisfaction.

He says the president was shot with two bullets, the first from a small-calibre weapon and the second, when Mr Allende was dead or dying, from the AK-47.

The shocks derailed most of a Shinkansen bullet train, the first derailing of a high-speed train since the bullet train system was inaugurated in 1964.