Example sentences for: first-born

How can you use “first-born” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Irish practice of bestowing a maternal grandparent's surname upon a first-born son, gives us Joyce Carey (the male writer).

  • My obedience was a mother's reference to her first-born child, and a ditherer was called a mess-pot .

  • Nearly everyone I know has (=does have) a nickname in the Windwards, where the Prime Minister of St. Vincent is Son Mitchell (evidently the first-born of an inside marriage), while my builder is Sonny, not an easy name for a New York liberal to summon him by.


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