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
Are we going to sleep right up to the minute the opening gun is fired?
From Time Magazine Archive
Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole commented that the meeting sounded like the "opening gun of '88."
From Time Magazine Archive
He found backers for a short-lived magazine, Vida Americana, in which he fired the opening gun of a fight to make art as useful, well-engineered and open to the public as an up-to-date subway system.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such was the opening gun in what became known as the "reformation."
From The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West by Harry Leon Wilson
