Sample Sentences forfirsthand (editor-reviewed)
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I heard this story firsthand.firsthand = from the original source
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I experienced cancer firsthand.firsthand = in person
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He was fine while he was studyin' outta books but then he took a year off ter get some firsthand experience…. (source)firsthand = experienced in person
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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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She was old enough to know firsthand that we had, indeed, shot people in the past.† (source)
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Learn the habits of the animals first-hand.† (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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Thomas gaped, his mind emptying of thought as he saw it all 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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For the first hand or two Lorena made mistakes—she had forgotten what the cards meant.† (source)
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They had no firsthand knowledge of his alleged closeness to Lettie.† (source)
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He locked the communicating door on their side—"in case," he said, "the excellent Mrs. Hubbard should take it into her head to acquire first-hand details of the crime to write to her daughter."† (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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BUT I FEEL ONE HAS TO SEE SOMETHING FIRSTHAND TO BE SURE.† (source)
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