1.   As Grant hurried down the narrow concrete stairs, he felt the first warning stab of pain in his torn thigh muscle.

2.   As we hit some inevitable turbulence, my newfound awareness of its harmlessness quelled the first stabs of panic.

3.   Frank Raucci made his first stab at designing a World Wide Web page a few months ago.

4.   In his first stab at color commentary, Madden was enthusiastic, he was talkative, he was...

5.   In the daytime it was where teen-agers gathered to play Ping- Pong and take their first stabs at sex.

6.   Ms. Parks took her first stab at playwriting as a student at Mount Holyoke College.

7.   New Braves hitting coach Merv Rettenmund is taking his first stab at teaching Jones the same thing.

8.   Our first stab at glamour was Chanel.

9.   Parliament grumpily regrouped, and a legislator from the opposition Labor Party took a tentative first stab at the government by accusing it of unpreparedness for snow.

10.   Salomon Brothers Asia Ltd. got its first stab at managing the sale of a Japanese corporate bond when it made arrangements for Sony Corp. to sell warrant bonds.