Example sentences for: first-time

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

  • It includes comments like I'm a first-time (or virgin) caller, I really enjoy your program (which alternates with You really have a great program tonight) , and Thank you for taking my call . I have never fathomed the purpose of the first; the second is pure sycophancy; and the third is patently ludicrous, for if a presenter of a phone-in program refused calls it would not be a phone-in program.

  • According to the papers the support is unprecedented for a first-time candidate and is "both spontaneous and organized."

  • With the push in recent years to move people from welfare to work, there are many new low-wage first-time filers, who are often automatically audited.

  • In September 1993--less than a year after he'd presided over New York's Court of Appeals--the 63-year-old first-time offender began serving an 11-month term in federal prison.

  • The Washington Post and New York Times lead with the surprising result of Indonesia's first truly contested presidential election in nearly 50 years: the victory (in a vote taken in the national legislature, not among the general public) of a first-time office-holder, an aging, frail, and nearly blind Muslim cleric named Abdurrahman Wahid.


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