Thesaurus / first

first

How to use first in a sentence

This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.

And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.

Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.

First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.

Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.

First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?

For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.

EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICK

The scene is the covenant made between the two first persons of the Trinity on Mount Moriah.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985