first-born
Example Sentences
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"He's my only son, he's my first-born, please help us," she said.
From BBC
Bindi gave birth to her first-born on March 25 and named her Grace Warrior Irwin Powell, which honors both Bindi’s great-grandmother and father and relatives of Chandler.
From Fox News
He was their mother’s first-born child, “and she is so heartbroken. It seems like she wishes she could be with him already,” Ruiz Corona wrote.
From Washington Times
In 1998, with the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son.
From Washington Times
Vanessa shared six photos of her first-born daughter on her birthday.
From Los Angeles Times
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