Sample Sentences for
firsthand
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    Louie, Phil, and their crew saw the dying firsthand.†  (source)
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    "Well," Mai sneers, "maybe if you're lucky, you'll get to find out firsthand."†  (source)
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    My parents had experienced war firsthand, the Great War of 1914-1918.†  (source)
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    Thomas had witnessed them all firsthand, having crossed paths with Cranks on more than one occasion.†  (source)
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    Learn the habits of the animals first-hand.†  (source)
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    For the first hand or two Lorena made mistakes—she had forgotten what the cards meant.†  (source)
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    She was old enough to know firsthand that we had, indeed, shot people in the past.†  (source)
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    This reporter is now able to give you a first-hand view of the horror, the shock, and the waste.†  (source)
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    Haie strikes his spade into the neck of a gigantic Frenchman and throws the first hand-grenade; we duck behind a breastwork for a few seconds, then the straight bit of trench ahead of us is empty.†  (source)
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    They'll want to hear about our time on Mars firsthand.†  (source)
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    Those are first-hand accounts from the limited number of survivors who've fought against the Sardaukar, eh?†  (source)
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    At first curiosity increased the clientele on the forbidden street and there was even word of respectable ladies who disguised themselves as workers in order to observe the novelty of the phonograph from first hand, but from so much and such close observation they soon reached the conclusion that it was not an enchanted mill as everyone had thought and as the matrons had said, but a mechanical trick that could not be compared with something so moving, so human, and so full of everyday truth as a bandof musicians.†  (source)
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    They had no firsthand knowledge of his alleged closeness to Lettie.†  (source)
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