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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Bidding became rather lively, and at last the goods were split up between the first comer and the storekeeper, the former paying thirty dollars and the latter twenty dollars for what they got.

From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Stratemeyer, Edward

A coquettish garden, of a surprising greenness, all flowery and perfumed, charms the eyes; the receiving cisterns conceal themselves under vaults that do not reveal their secret to the first comer.

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William