first comer

Example Sentences

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There’s a fear that if the Chinese establish the first moon base, they will assert the advantages of a first comer to exclude later arrivals from areas with valuable resources, particularly water.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

There is "dour deference for the first comer, the man at the head of the queue."

From Time Magazine Archive

Angel took on his first comer, Luigi Bacigalupi, 275-lbs. ringside.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the Peak in Darien the first comer, with the wild surmise of ignorance, has the advantage in the quality of his sensation; but it is different in Jerusalem or Rome.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

During the descent the first comer had to guide the foot of the next into a safe fissure, but all reached the bottom safely after two and a half hours.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various