firsthand account

How to use firsthand account in a sentence

• The audience was spellbound to hear panelist Zin Mar Aung give her dramatic, firsthand account of life behind bars in Burma.

  Burmese Spring or Phony Thaw? | Melinda Liu | March 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Tom Baker, a writer living in Tokyo, has posted a compelling firsthand account of his experience as the earthquake began.

  Shocking Videos and Photos From the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami | The Daily Beast | March 11, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Once in a great while historians find a firsthand account that provides striking insight into a past era.

  Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774. | Philip Vickers Fithian