be first
Example Sentences
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The waste currently cooled in water pools at an interim storage site, at the nearby Olkiluoto power plant next to the Baltic Sea, will be first to be deposited, Bordarier said.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Reform MS Llŷr Powell told BBC Wales that Reform Senedd members would nominate their leader, Dan Thomas, to be first minister.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
College coaches told me that summer they couldn’t wait to be first in line to recruit him.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
“Virtually nothing” for the latest project will be first of a kind, said Mike Laufer, CEO of Kairos.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
My family is pretty solemn on the way home, and it’s like no one wants to be first to break the silence, but then Daddy clears his throat.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
