first-born
Example Sentences
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Gilham said Stanley's father, who was an MP, and his mother - who helped establish the first women's college at Cambridge University - had "great expectations for their first-born".
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
Naturally, Sybil can’t stand the thought of her first-born child limiting his worldview, especially because Everett was the one to expand hers.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2025
Words that we will see come true — at least if we are to credit her account, something her first-born daughter is less apt to do.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2024
They did not find the same result in boys or daughters who were not first-born.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
In our sort of family it is well to be the first-born: what resources there are, have later to be shared out in smaller and smaller portions.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
