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How to use the word first in a Sentence? Page #5

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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For sure, Marc will want to be in front because he will want his revenge, he will be in front for sure from the first race and will be a tough rival, but we are tough too. So we have to have a great battle, we have to work hard to be in front, and let’s see who will be the main contender.

The Honda rider

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Kira means everything to me. Probably she is the meaning in my life in the first place. I don’t even know, to be honest, I can’t imagine my life without Kira.

Tetiana Pavelko

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When it first came about, I just didn’t even want to leave the house. I just laid around and cried. I just wanted to get better.

Courtesy Renee Martay

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1 year ago

The housing market was the first sector to slow as the result of tighter monetary policy and should be the first to benefit as policymakers slow — and ultimately stop — hiking rates.

Mike Fratantoni

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1 year ago

The first thing to consider is that some of our diagnostic modalities are becoming better.

Shane Dormady

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1 year ago

It was an exciting time within astronomy when ‘Oumuamua was first discovered, and it just became more and more intriguing since the more we learned about it, the harder it became to explain its behavior, as an astrochemist, my own scientific interest in ‘Oumuamua developed as models started emerging to explain its acceleration, which implied pretty unusual chemical properties of the object.

Jennifer Bergner

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1 year ago

If mortgage rates continue to slide over the next few weeks, look for a continued rebound during the first weeks of the spring homebuying season.

Freddie Mac

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1 year ago

For a lot of students, this isn’t what they saw their life looking like. This isn’t the timeline that they had for themselves, they see their friends continuing on and becoming juniors and seniors, graduating and getting their first job. But they feel stuck and like they’re watching their life plan slipping away.

Julie Wolfson

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1 year ago

There’s no stone that anti-choice extremists will leave unturned as they seek to do everything they can to ensure that abortion is banned across the nation, this first-of-its-kind ban on medication abortion, as well as the total ban, are just the latest proof.

Mini Timmaraju

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1 year ago

As alleged in the complaint, Sun and others used an age-old playbook to mislead and harm investors by first offering securities without complying with registration and disclosure requirements and then manipulating the market for those very securities, at the same time, Sun paid celebrities with millions of social media followers to tout the unregistered offerings, while specifically directing that they not disclose their compensation.

Gurbir Grewal

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1 year ago

At first, I didn’t quite understand what space that I would take up.

Cyrus Veyssi

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1 year ago

Who was the first Palestinian king? What language do the Palestinians have? Was there ever a Palestinian currency? Is there a Palestinian history or culture? Nothing. There is no such thing with a Palestinian.

Bezalel Smotrich

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1 year ago

The government of Ethiopia is taking the first steps by publicly releasing a detailed green paper with transitional justice options based upon best practice and building upon the experiences of other states emerging from periods of mass violence.

Antony Blinken

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1 year ago

I don’t expect to get 218 on the first blush. What we present, there’s gonna be some gnashing of teeth, every dollar up here has an advocate.

South Carolina

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1 year ago

When you open up the bill, on the first page there’s a big red flag which says: This might be in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Alexander Betts

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1 year ago

Hitting distances at the elite level of the game have consistently increased over the past 20, 40, and 60 years. It’s been two decades since we last revisited our testing standards for ball distances, predictable, continued increases will become a significant issue for the next generation if not addressed soon. We are taking the next steps in this process, guided first and foremost by doing what’s right by the entire game.

Mike Whan

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1 year ago

We just squatted down there and waited there until the shooting stopped, and then after some time they brought out the first kid that was an obvious DOA.

Amanda Shoemake

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1 year ago

For the first time, PDP is going to take Lagos, and I’m going to be the governor, people are really tired … the streets of Lagos are yearning for a breath of fresh air and that is what we represent.

Azeez Olajide Adediran

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1 year ago

That moment when you solve the mystery that you’ve been living with for a long time, that’s what motivates me, to finally get traction on her, that’s the first step to tell her story. It was a very special moment.

Megan Smolenyak

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1 year ago

This is the first time, in a sense, that we’ll have the opportunity to celebrate her and to acknowledge her in our hometown, and have a gathering in her honor.

Paul Linehan

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1 year ago

We’re bringing Annie Moore back to Cork, this is the first time, in a sense, that we’ll have the opportunity to celebrate her and to acknowledge her in our hometown, and have a gathering in her honor.

Paul Linehan

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1 year ago

We’ve always known that Annie Moore, our grandfather’s sister, was the first person at Ellis Island.

Michael Shulman

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1 year ago

I never lost hope and always knew this day would come, i cannot wait to hug my mother in the free world for the first time in over 34 years.

Sidney Holmes

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1 year ago

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

Tommy Douglas

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