first love
Example Sentences
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He’s also very glad for the opportunity to focus on his first love: music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The first love song on the album, it's inexplicably missing from the standard, 12-track edition.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
She contrasts this with her first love in high school—a relationship, she says, that was “imperfect, messy, alive.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
McCann's first love was football and, despite being an avid Toffee, she played for Liverpool before an ankle injury forced her retirement in 2010.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
“The glory of first love, and all that. It’s incredible, isn’t it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?”
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
