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Example sentences for "first used"

  • First used by Duilius to prevent the escape of the Carthaginians.

  • A name given to a watch-coat with a hood, worn in high latitudes--first used by Cook's people.

  • First used in mortar-vessels to support the bomb-beds; later they have crept in to support the engines in steamers, and furnish a free flow beneath their flooring for the water, as well as for ventilation.

  • At this period pewter serving pots were first used.

  • Sugar is first used to sweeten coffee in Cairo.

  • Fancy paper bags for coffee are first used in Germany.

  • When was “Liquid Fire” first used in Warfare?

  • The plan of identifying people by their finger-prints, although at first used only on criminals, is now put to many other uses.

  • The steam elevator, at first used, has now in great measure been replaced by the electric elevator, the first moved by an electric motor being the Otis elevator installed in the Demarest Building, New York, in 1889.

  • One hardly expects to find this otiose Americanism (first used by J.

  • Physics) Defn: A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.

  • This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first appearance; first base; first birthday; first born; first came; first century; first company; first cousin; first cousins; first experience; first hand; first importance; first landing; first letter; first made; first meridian; first necessary; first part; first play; first principles; first rate; first thought; first time; first work; five days; representation from