firsthand account

Example Sentences

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A firsthand account by an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist and orator, this memoir reframed slavery as coerced labor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

The fact that no one has stepped forward with a firsthand account of false accusation is immaterial because the em dash drama plays on existing anxieties.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025

Graves did not observe the event himself but said a witness came to his organization, Americans for Safe Aerospace, with a firsthand account and evidence including police blotters and other documentation.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023

But Pence can offer a firsthand account of at least some one-on-one conversations with Trump.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2023

The firsthand account was a good one, and I was just getting into it when Elliot tapped me on the shoulder.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin