first and last
Example Sentences
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It was the first and last time Copi ever spoke to Davis, but he would go on to photograph him eight times in total.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Randa Abdel-Fattah, the Australian-Palestinian writer whose disinvitation from a major literature festival in Adelaide sparked an uproar in January, said her upcoming book, Discipline, would be her "first and last book with UQP".
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Historic freezes in 1894 and 1895 nearly eradicated the industry, its first and last real brush with old-world calamity.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
It was the first and last time Art.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
The first and last time she went to see the cousins play the foreign game of basketball, the Matriarch had been horrified.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
