Example sentences for: firsthand

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

  • One researcher with firsthand knowledge of these problems is Daniel Langleben, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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

  • Working from firsthand reports as well as archeological and scientific data, Krech asserts that Native Americans are not the proto-environmentalists so fondly imagined by "spiritually undernourished Americans" (in the words of The New Yorker 's Nicholas Lemann).

  • Tarbell had grown up in the Pennsylvania oil regions and saw firsthand what happened when the Cleveland Massacre rolled east.

  • Concerns that Binalshibh intended to immigrate to the United States doomed his chances to participate firsthand in the 9/11 attacks.


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