first-born

Example Sentences

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"He's my only son, he's my first-born, please help us," she said.

From BBC

The phenomenon has several nicknames, including “guilt tipping” and “tipflation,” and has spawned a sub genre of online satire, including a TikToker impersonating an eye surgeon soliciting tips before deciding how carefully to conduct your procedure and a tweet joking that the default options at a local coffee shop might as well be 25%, a kidney or a first-born child.

From Los Angeles Times

So it's a mystery to them how I, their first-born daughter, came to be the best drinker of all time.

From Salon

Mr Iordache filed a second refugee claim after that incident, in 2020, but just over a year later, he and Monalisa, their first-born in tow, were stopped as they tried once again to cross into the US.

From BBC

As explained by The Guardian, the title of Harry's "Spare" comes from "an old saying in royal and aristocratic circles: that a first son is an heir to titles, power and fortune, and a second is therefore a spare, should anything happen to the first-born."

From Salon