opening gun
Example Sentences
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Mussmon, a Liberty-bound senior, was impressive on his future home track, taking the lead from the opening gun.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2022
Ahead lay the imminent battle in Congress over U. S. Neutrality in which the President was about to fire the opening gun.
From Time Magazine Archive
Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, whose family has given millions to Yale, fired the opening gun of the Taft campaign with a gift of $500,000.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Vim's Matthews, at 24 the youngest of the skippers, is unsurpassed at beating the competition to the starting line by precious seconds, in last week's trial series trailed only once at the opening gun.
From Time Magazine Archive
This article was the opening gun of the campaign, and this was quickly followed by a second equally convincing—both articles being written from the inside of the gilded circles of the couturiers' shops.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok
