Sentence for first | Use first in a sentence

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• It was her first. (10)
• He first scolded us. (10)
• First be virtuous, Rip! (10)
• May I write this first? (14)
• First he would call on her. (10)
• This was the first outpost. (19)
• He will have submission first. (10)
• We commence our show here first. (21)
• Flight had been her first thought. (10)
• They were horribly sheepish at first. (10)
• First he took men into his confidence. (10)
• This time the driver was first to speak. (10)
• You must take the first car for Cambridge. (9)
• This was in the first quarter of the night. (10)
• He also wrote other sonatas, and his first symphonies. (3)
• They went out last, and they did not come in first, ever. (9)
• I write in haste, to you first, burning to hear from you. (10)
• The first is blond, of good height and a comely insolence. (8)
• But so it always is with me; the first moment settles everything. (4)
• Liquid first, and then the caw, Then the cry that knows not law. (10)
• Braintop answered the latter question first, assuring her that Mr. (10)
• It was the first sign of intelligence I had occasion to remark in her. (2)
• Stevenson burned his first draft, and rewrote the whole in three days. (2)
• Felix Freeland, author, wearing the very first gray top hat of the season. (8)
• The significance of the first distinction is doubled by that of the second. (7)
• At first I thought I would get out as soon as the train had left the station. (8)
• The one missent must first be attended to; it had been written five days ago. (4)
• Colonel Evans Cuff, on the heights from first to last, and not advanced a step! (10)
• A phantom ring of mist accompanied her from her first footing outside the house. (10)
• She had never misled him, but he had misled himself from the first glimpse of her. (9)
• These were my first thoughts, as she entered; how they were followed, I cannot say. (6)
• It is the first heavy rainfall of the season that brings the most overwhelming woe. (21)
• She was spared from the first advance toward this by an accident or a misunderstanding. (9)
• And, for the first time all day, she thought of Fiorsen, thought of him almost longingly. (8)
• He would be one of the first to rush to the standard if there were danger; I know he would. (10)
• His first sensation was a sort of stupefaction of relief that had in it an element of anger. (8)
• But this, from the momentary perverseness of impatient suffering, she at first refused to do. (4)
• This question was the first ripple of the breeze from other emotions beginning to flow fast. (10)
• Arnold was one of the first to be struck down, and, wounded in the leg, he retired to the rear. (19)
• It began that day at Lakelands; I fell in love with you the very first minute I set eyes on you! (10)
• I forgive anybody who talks about first love after what my experience has been with Prince Leboo. (10)
• So many yards before the first line of trenches, so many yards to the second line, and there stop. (8)
• The first organ containing this marked improvement was made for the Cathedral at Magdeburg, Germany. (3)
• What would she herself think, if he were to fail her at their first tryst after those days of bliss? (8)
• After taking several puffs of the smoke, he passed the pipe first to the white chief, James Greydon. (18)
• Angelo was music to me for two whole days (without a morning to the first and a night to the second). (10)
• I waited for a moment, till the first burst of their merriment over, I should obtain a clue to the jest. (6)
• When we first met we drank champagne together, and I intend to celebrate our parting in the same liquor. (10)
• You may well wonder how I contrive to pass my time here, and for the first week it was insufferably dull. (4)
• All were attracted at first by the plants or the pheasants, and all dispersed about in happy independence. (4)
• Alma set her lips primly and turned her head first on one side and then on the other to look at the sketch. (9)
• After the first stupor Adela proposed to go to her father instantly, and then suggested that they should all go. (10)
• A little disordered always the first twenty-four hours of going to sea, but never knew what sickness was afterwards. (4)
• And suddenly he saw with horror that to help the woman he would have to assert again that he had spoken to her first. (8)
• It was at first her intention that Frederica should accompany her, for the benefit of masters, but we overruled her there. (4)
• It came on from her cumulative over-eating, again, but the doctor was not so smiling as he had been with regard to the first. (9)
• At first I was disinclined to enter their presence, but the master cornered me and adjusted straps, despite my protestations. (21)
• I cannot forget that, when she first knew what my father would do for them, she seemed quite disappointed that it was not more. (4)
• Mrs. Durgin asked him the first day if he would not like to go into the serving-room and see it while they were serving dinner. (9)
• Mr. Rushworth was from the first struck with the beauty of Miss Bertram, and, being inclined to marry, soon fancied himself in love. (4)
• He called at an early hour of the Westward tidal flow at the Insurance Office looking over the stormy square of the first of Seamen. (10)
• Never in all the fifteen years since he had first found out that life was no simple business, had he found it so singularly complicated. (8)
• Man, differentiated from the other apes by his desire to know, was from the first obliged to steel himself against the penalties of knowledge. (8)
• One may, however, fall on a pleasurable resignation in accepting great indemnities, as Diana bade her believe, when the first disgust began to ebb. (10)
• With these in hand March began practically to plan the first number, and to concrete a general scheme from the material and the experience they furnished. (9)

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