Sentence examples for fought at first from inspiring English sources

New settlers fought at first with older inhabitants, but eventually intermarried, adopted a common religion and ultimately morphed into the French.

"I was hesitant because I thought, 'Oh, we'll always be fighting,' and we did fight at first, until we figured out how to work together," Ms. Majorelle said.

In a graveyard at the southern end of the church property are buried several members of the 69th New York regiment, which fought at the first battle of Bull Run in the Civil War.

French resistance commander Charles Deschamps de Boishébert, hoping to evacuate as many Acadians as possible, was unable to march the distance between Nerepis and the Shepody settlement in time, but fought at the second threatened village on 28 August 1755.

He fought at Bull Run (second battle), Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg.

The families fought back, at first.

"We all kind of fought him at first.

"I kind of fought Jeff at first," said Mr. Appel's father, Ron Appel.

You can't cook Chinese in Springfield without cooking cashew chicken.' " "I fought it at first," he said.

I couldn't explain it, and I fought it at first because he was 18 years older.

The executive committee fought it at first, then everyone applauded it, and now it is used even by Issa Hayatou [Blatter's rival for president] for his own election programme," Blatter responded.