We found over 1000 examples of how to use first in an English sentence.
Sentences 51 to 75 of 1000.
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| 51. | Virginia Raggi, who was first elected in 2016, is Rome's first female mayor. | |
| 52. | The mission is named for Eugene Parker, the physicist who first theorized the existence of the solar wind in 1958. It’s the first NASA mission to be named for a living researcher. | |
| 53. | "First must Trinacrian waters bend the oar, / Ausonian waves thy vessels must explore, / first must thou view the nether world, where flows / dark Styx, and visit that AEaean shore, / the home of Circe, ere, at rest from woes, / thou build the promised walls, and win the wished repose." | |
| 54. | Is this the first time that you've flown first class? | |
| 55. | "Is it the first time that you've been here?" "Yes, it's my first visit." | |
| 56. | Mrs. Milton White says she never met a perfect person, but she's heard enough about one . . . her husband's first wife. Don't you think it must be very uncomfortable to be married to a man whose first wife was perfect? | |
| 57. | Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel. | |
| 58. | According to Jewish tradition, the first fratricide was also the first homicide. | |
| 59. | Gradlon was a saintly and pious man, and acted as patron to Gwénnolé, founder and first abbé of the first monastery built in Armorica. | |
| 60. | In September 1789, members of America’s first Congress approached the nation’s first president, George Washington, and asked him to call for a national Thanksgiving. | |
| 61. | Organizers of the Kentucky Derby horse race have announced the event is being postponed until September — the first time in 75 years the event will not occur on the first Saturday in May. | |
| 62. | My first purchase with my first paycheck from VOA in 2015 was an antique mandolin. | |
| 63. | A very different and fairly common quasi-human kind was sometimes produced by planets rather larger than the Earth. Owing to the greater strength of gravitation, there would first appear, in place of the familiar quadruped, a six-legged type. This would proliferate into little sextuped burrowers, swift and elegant sextuped grazers, a sextuped mammoth, complete with tusks, and many kinds of sextuped carnivora. Man in these worlds sprang usually from some small opposum-like creature which had come to use the first of its three pairs of limbs for nest-building or for climbing. In time, the forepart of its body thus became erect, and it gradually assumed a form not unlike that of a quadruped with a human torso in place of a neck. In fact it became a centaur, with four legs and two capable arms. It was very strange to find oneself in a world in which all the amenities and conveniences of civilization were fashioned to suit men of this form. | |
| 64. | We have watched the fortunes of eight successive human species for a thousand million years, the first half of that flicker which is the duration of man. Ten more species now succeed one another, or are contemporary, on the plains of Neptune. We, the Last Men, are the Eighteenth Men. Of the eight pre-Neptunian species, some, as we have seen, remained always primitive; many achieved at least a confused and fleeting civilization, and one, the brilliant Fifth, was already wakening into true humanity when misfortune crushed it. The ten Neptunian species show an even greater diversity. They range from the instinctive animal to modes of consciousness never before attained. The definitely sub-human degenerate types are confined mostly to the first six hundred million years of man's sojourn on Neptune. | |
| 65. | For the first time in nine years, NASA astronauts were launched from American soil on an American rocket, and for the first time in history, those astronauts flew on a commercially built and operated spacecraft. | |
| 66. | Do you want to get married first, or have a kid first? | |
| 67. | Rick was twenty two years old and fresh out of the military when I first photographed him. He was already well known in San Francisco where he lived and well liked. These photographs in particular were taken before he would film his first video. | |
| 68. | Kamala Harris is the first Black woman and first Indian American to be vice president. | |
| 69. | The first chemical weapons were used by the Germans; the first atomic weapons, by the Americans. | |
| 70. | We are in the twenty-first year of the twenty-first century. | |
| 71. | The first Spaniard to go to space was with the first American to do the same. | |
| 72. | First, I'm going to do an outline of my new website. | |
| 73. | Wash before first wearing. | |
| 74. | To have doubts about oneself is the first sign of intelligence. | |
| 75. | The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. |