Sentence examples for the first stroke of from inspiring English sources

At the first stroke of Big Ben, he yelled "Go!" and everyone was tinkling, chiming and dinging.

The discovery, I thought, was the first stroke of good luck in our seven months in captivity.

The first stroke of what will either be a 63 or an 83 is bombed down the middle of the track.

He began to peel it for me, but at the first stroke of the knife the blade separated from its handle.

But will we lose that glorious old feeling when the first stroke of the conductor's baton said "Enter a different world"?

On the first stroke of Big Ben at 11am, a shot fired from a first world war gun at nearby Horse Guards Parade signalled the start of the two-minute silence.

But each adores the first strokes of the new makeovers.

But Mr. Clinton killed the amendment with one of the first strokes of his line-item veto pen.

With a flutter of kicks she was off, taking the first strokes of her daily half-mile swim.

The values for non-successive M5SH strokes and the first strokes of M5DH were consistent with other groups [13], [14].

By netting a backhand on the fourth stroke of the rally.