firsthand account

Example Sentences

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The couple’s oldest son, Jake, last week published an emotional firsthand account of the moment he learned of his parents’ deaths.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

A firsthand account by an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist and orator, this memoir reframed slavery as coerced labor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

By the time that Seabrook published his "firsthand account of voodoo in Haiti," the othering of Haiti, and its Afrocentric vodou religion in particular, had been long underway.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2023

Cohen’s testimony could illuminate that sequence of events, providing prosecutors the firsthand account they would need to make a case against Trump.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2023

The firsthand account was a good one, and I was just getting into it when Elliot tapped me on the shoulder.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin