first sight

Example Sentences

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Brussels said the fee offered earlier this year "at first sight" was "in practice equivalent to the previous access ban".

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

It was love at first sight, an experience the now-63-year-old says he hadn’t had before—and hasn’t since.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Kennedy presented Kukita’s painting, and it was love at first sight for Kemp.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Weighing over 400 pounds, it would have gotten stuck at the first sight of powdered snow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

They would climb the single track that led through Fort Misrach to the top of the Cusp, and they would get their first sight of that which lay beyond it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor