Sentence examples for first from high-quality English sources.

• My first shiny work laptop.

• So the first woman president will not be the first woman to run for president.

• First basemen are typically physically large in order to provide a big target for throws to first base.

• Indians first summited Everest in the 1960s and in 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb the mountain.

• It wasn't the first "smartphone," or the first phone with a camera.

• Warnock will become Georgia's first Black senator and the first Democratic Black senator from the South.

• The American Civil War was also the first to have widespread newspaper coverage and the first to be recorded by photography.

• After a third-place performance at her first world championship in 1965, she placed first for three consecutive years (1966 through 1968).

Use first in a sentence.

• …first spacecraft to strike the Moon, and Luna 3 (Oct. 4, 1959) made the first circumnavigation of the Moon and returned the first photographs of its far side.

• It also sent the first African-American astronaut into space, completed the first in-flight capture and repair of a satellite, and launched the first US woman in space.

• Pinter’s later successes included No Man’s Land (first produced 1975), Betrayal (first produced 1978), Moonlight (first produced 1993), and Celebration (first produced 2000).

• s a society, we hold firsts in high regard: graduating from university with first-class honours; finishing first on the leader board at your weekly spin class; becoming the first female president or first woman to set foot on the moon.

• The charges accuse Rittenhouse of first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, attempted first-degree intentional homicide and possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18.

• Obama used fashion to appear as an accessible yet aspirational "mom-in-chief," despite her unique position: the most academically accomplished first lady in history, the first African-American first lady, and the first to be the frequent subject of racist attacks.

• Historically (it may be argued), Socrates and Plato put ethics first, then Aristotle put metaphysics or ontology first, then Descartes put epistemology first, then Russell put logic first, and then Husserl (in his later transcendental phase) put phenomenology first.

• It’s a lot more powerful when the brains processes exciting, new experiences than boring ones, and during this period of ‘firsts’ we start to build a bank of self-defining memories – first kiss, first car, first time travelling abroad, first time away from home, first time going to a concert.

first sentence examples

• Jasmine Dotiwala said: "When we think about music, it’s usually related to our favourite memories of our first times of doing things, whether it might be specific boyfriends and girlfriends that we dated, your first kiss, your first dance, the first time you travelled, maybe the first car you had and the music you played in that car.

• East of England- 1,608,086 first doses and 60,920 second doses, making 1,669,006 North East and Yorkshire - 2,101,422 first and 83,616 second doses (2,185,038) North West- 1,765,663 first and 69,776 second doses (1,835,439) South East- 2,185,490 first and 86,172 second doses (2,271,662) South West- 1,559,910 first and 57,715 second doses (1,617,625)

• The breakdown for the other regions is: East of England - 1,421,572 first doses and 59,217 second doses, making 1,480,789 in total North-east and Yorkshire - 1,850,682 first and 80,437 second doses (1,931,119) North-west - 1,582,904 first and 68,672 second doses (1,651,576) South-east - 1,918,899 first and 83,581 second doses (2,002,480) South-west - 1,377,761 first and 56,702 second doses (1,434,463)

• So: David Cameron at first mention, thereafter Cameron; Harriet Harman at first mention, subsequently Harman; Sir Richard Branson at first mention, thereafter Branson; Sayeeda Warsi at first mention, then Lady Warsi, and subsequently Warsi (see entry on Peers); Prof John Wells at first mention, thereafter Wells; Dr Bill Bailey (there are some exceptions, see entry on Drs) at first mention, subsequently Bailey; the Rev George Herbert at first mention, thereafter Herbert, etc.