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:

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

  • He calls Eastwood "one of the great ironists of the age" and a "postmodern" hero: "Clint's gift," he writes, forever on a first-name basis with his subject, "is to let us see the dark comedy in the American male's contorting, distorting attempts to achieve his masteries of the moment while at the same time not entirely discrediting the tradition that makes him bid that effort."

  • Is it OK for young secretaries to assume we're on a first-name basis?

  • 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?"

  • 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."


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