Example sentences for: firsthand

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

  • If ever there was a person who has learned firsthand about the difficulties of having to drag things to the dry cleaners, it would certainly be she.

  • This exposé of American submarine espionage is "an evocative and important look at the cold war," says Timothy Naftali in the New York Times Book Review . Told with the color and pacing of a spy novel, the book is full of firsthand accounts from the men who served on the underwater spying missions, though critics complain that the writers--a former New York Times reporter and a current one--are insufficiently skeptical about inflated claims to heroism.

  • It is chilling to read the many firsthand accounts of the massacres of Armenians in the 1890s and during the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

  • If we want to illustrate, for example, working conditions for immigrant laborers, we can report what the thermometers registered and we can also report, firsthand, how people were sweating and what it felt like to be out in the fields.

  • Davis denied any firsthand knowledge of the Lewinsky affair, claiming that he was merely spewing back what he had read in published reports.


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