Example sentences for: first-name

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

  • Three hundred pages into Sylvia Jukes Morris' Rage for Fame and mostly enjoying myself, I was astonished to flip to the last page (473) and discover that this was only Volume 1. I'd been dumped unceremoniously in 1942, having just seen Clare--by now I was certainly on first-name terms with her--off to Washington for her first term in Congress.

  • The LAT says the tapes show Clinton conferring easily, at times on a first-name basis, "with some of the most notorious figures of the 1996 campaign."

  • Prudie, on occasion, has asked service people on the other end of the line who launch into a first-name address, "Do we know each other?"

  • Jane Friedman, Katrina van den Heuvel (her dress had literally no back; she looked fabbelus !), Salman (you must say "Salman," I have heard, and how many writers have achieved first-name status in our time?

  • She's on a first-name basis with all the computer moguls.


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