eldest
Example Sentences
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The couple's eldest daughter was not there that day.
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The eldest, Nancy, would send up the family and their friends in works of comic fiction.
She and her partner, Beth, have two children - James, and their eldest Kate - both conceived through IVF treatment at a clinic in Northern Cyprus.
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"My eldest son, who is a fitness instructor, asked me if I fancied doing this competition with him and I foolishly said yes," Carole told BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast.
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The eldest, Walter, was a Caracas judge, having followed his mother into law.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
