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Example sentences for "first read"

  • In this mood I first read Dickens, whom I had known before in the reading I had listened to.

  • This is vague enough and slight enough, I must confess, but I must confess also that I had not even a conception of so much when I first read the "Inferno.

  • When I first read Pope's Homer, I ambitiously attempted to compose something of the same kind, and achieved as much as one book of a continuation of the Iliad.

  • I am not sure whether it was in this winter or the next that I first read a history of the French Revolution.

  • From the winter of 1821, when I first read Bentham, and especially from the commencement of the Westminster Review, I had what might truly be called an object in life; to be a reformer of the world.

  • Footnote 175: The effect the poem had upon the Earl of Southampton when he first read it will be remembered.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first read" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ever experienced; first battle; first down; first dynasty; first expedition; first fruits; first gentleman; first glimpse; first impressions; first intention; first line; first novel; first part; first play; first printed; first refused; first secretary; first term; first the; first thought; first violin; first visit; first went; first winter; large crowd; other materials