first-born
Example Sentences
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"He's my only son, he's my first-born, please help us," she said.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025
Naturally, Sybil can’t stand the thought of her first-born child limiting his worldview, especially because Everett was the one to expand hers.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2025
Rebekah, a corporate striver with a mercenary streak, is beholden to her first-born boy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025
Fox explains that a first-born daughter's maturation, but not early onset of menstruation, may enable her to help her mother rear her other children successfully.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
My hopes were all dead—struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
