Sentence examples for first to be stricken from inspiring English sources

One of the first to be stricken by the gas was Muhammad's brother Salah.

Britain was only the first to be struck down (see article).

"Will I be saved?" Stacey and Pamela were the first to be struck down in an unparalleled cluster of human cases of BSE centred on Queniborough.

Ewan McGregor gives it his all as the chef whose trade is the first to be struck by the unquantifiable viral outbreak, and appears in an appended Q&A.

There were grave fears for places such as Guiuan, a town of 40,000 people which was the first to be struck by Haiyan as it roared across the central and southern Philippines on Friday, flinging ships inland and destroying 70 to 80 per cent of buildings in its path.

A sitting president's signature legislative achievement is on the line -- potentially the first to be struck down in more than 75 years.

Perhaps the greatest tragedy in The Walking Dead will be the discovery in Washington D.C., if the weird genius ever gets delivered there by the lamb-chopped redheaded bruiser, will be that the first to be struck by the virus weren't the fatties, according to Zombieland, but instead were the comics.

The 1 ball is the first to be struck although it is the 8 ball which will end up in the opposite side pocket.

In Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, al-Aqsa hospital became the third to be struck in the 14-day conflict when three shells slammed into the intensive care unit, surgical and administrative areas.

The latest victim in Camberwell was the 14th cyclist to die so far this year and the ninth to be struck by a HGV.

It was in 1969 when the first 50p coin appeared, the world's first coin to be struck in the shape of an equilateral curve heptagon.