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Example sentences for "must first"

  • We must first perceive; then analyze or abstract qualities; then compare qualities; then synthesize or classify according to the result of the comparison of qualities.

  • In anything that we purpose or intend to do, we must first of all have an idea or image of it in the mind, and the more clear and correct the image, the more accurately and efficiently will the purpose be carried out.

  • To appreciate van Helmont's astonishment and his further procedure, we must first call to mind the meaning which, in accordance with the prevailing tradition, he attached to the term Air.

  • To this end we must first of all heed the fact that the movement which mediates aural sensation is one of alternating expansion and contraction.

  • We must first go briefly into Kant's own exposition of the matter.

  • My view, therefore, is that we must first of all lay the solid foundation without which any successful action against the superior forces of the enemy is unthinkable.

  • From this standpoint I must first of all examine the aspirations for peace, which seem to dominate our age and threaten to poison the soul of the German people, according to their true moral significance.

  • He that commits this wickedness, must first hatch it upon his bed, beat his head about it, and lay his plot strong.

  • Before He answers He must first know in which sense Pilate uses the words.

  • We must first, then, consider in what sense He is the Truth and the Life.

  • It must first be really appropriate for the dying person to occupy himself with himself instead of with the universal, with this certainty of himself as a “this” instead of with the Truth.

  • The concrete is the unity of diverse determinations and principles; these, in order to be perfected, in order to come definitely before the consciousness, must first of all be presented separately.

  • In the second place, as to the intellectual side of the philosophy, we must first of all.

  • We must first be assured unto what purpose.

  • We must first get an answer from him," said the Doctor, "ere measures can be devised for his recovery.

  • I ordered breakfast, and told a 'vetturino' to get a very handsome chaise ready while we had our meal, but the curate said that he must first of all go and say his mass.

  • We must first ascertain," said the mother, "what the lady thinks of the arrangement.

  • I am quite ready to burn powder with him, but he must first pay me the twenty Louis he robbed me of.

  • You may tell him from me that he must first give me some proof of this.

  • But for this he must first of all cease to be what he is: this desideratum is, as a preliminary, supplied by death, the moral necessity of which can already be seen from this point of view.

  • In order to show this in a manner that excludes all doubt, it must first be demonstrated that the continuance of modern society as it has been evolved in the course of the last century is in the very nature of things an impossibility.

  • The measures required, therefore, must first of all have regard to these two points.

  • If we wish to procure the resin alone, we must first of all treat the flour, well dried, with alcohol.

  • For this purpose, the cock f must first be shut, the cold water is to be then run out of the condenser G, and k and g are to be opened.

  • For this honest life does not justify us, but we must first be justified and believe before we attempt to lead an honest (pious) life.

  • In order that I may be of service to others, for I must first control my body and the flesh by the Spirit, and thus I can afterward be of service to others.

  • This substance, however, cannot be acted on by the yeast plant; it must first be changed into sugar.

  • Of course, the way in which food should be prepared will depend on how it is to be served, but in any event all foods, for the sake of cleanliness, must first be washed with water or wiped with a clean, damp cloth.

  • I must first of all explain what these things mean, the Church, and the One Head of the Church.

  • If a bachelor marries a widow he must first go through the ceremony with a silver ring, and if the ring is subsequently lost or broken, its funeral rites must be performed.

  • If a bachelor desires to espouse a widow he must first go through the ceremony of marriage with a swallow-wort plant.

  • Among the Pardeshi Barhais of Betul if a bachelor desires to marry a widow he must first go through the ceremony with a branch or twig of the gular tree.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "must first" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    kusa grass; must always; must become; must bring; must consider; must contrive; must die; must fight; must find; must further; must give and hazard; must have; must hold; must insist; must learn; must marry; must necessarily; must not; must now; must pass; must seem; must send; must trouble; must try; our journey; western extremity