Example sentences for: firsthand

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

  • 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.

  • Prudie, in fact, can speak of this with firsthand knowledge.

  • The FBI was initially misinformed about how the Saudis got to Lexington by a local police officer in Lexington who did not have firsthand knowledge of the matter.

  • Neither of the firsthand accounts mentioned any stabbings or the threat or use of either a bomb or Mace, though both witnesses began the flight in the first-class cabin.

  • You have firsthand knowledge of a situation which Prudie, as an only child, could not have ...


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