at first
Example Sentences
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“Maybe at first it felt Big Brotherish, but my mom realizes now that she needs to hand this over to me.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Saturday’s game started 45 minutes after the National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning as the temperature reached 100 degrees at first pitch at Dodger Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
At L&G Asset Management in London, fund managers at first saw what they thought was a great opportunity to buy French government bonds and sell bunds in recent days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
He thought at first that this was simply because of an air pocket, but "it took a lot of time, almost a minute".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
But for the last five years, they had been disappearing; slowly at first, and then fast, in a great and terrible rush.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
