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Example Sentences
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“The Price,” by contrast, is set inside what looks at first glance to be a crowded antique shop but turns out to be the apartment once inhabited by the Franz family after the market crash changed everything.
From Los Angeles Times
At first glance, finding worms in fish may seem alarming.
From Science Daily
CLAIR, Mich.—At first, North America’s biggest auto-parts supplier was thrilled to snag the job of making enclosures for the batteries in General Motors’ new electric pickup.
Bowser, who has reformed and seems like a nice guy even after he tricks Luigi and Mario into setting him free from his miniaturization spell, is at first hesitant to follow his son back into iniquity.
At first, he was a painting student who stood out enough to have a work included in the annual citywide exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
