Sentence examples for alone the first from inspiring English sources

Let alone the first week of the United States Open.

He & Mrs. Wheeler set out alone, the first stop being Washington.

Twenty years would pass before the first exoplanets were detected, let alone the first habitable planets.

On musical grounds alone, the first set went high and low.

One must go it alone, the first angel ever to be cast out of Heaven.

Left alone, the first woman, consumed by trepidation, props herself against a wall.

In the magazine in 2002, Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the sociologist Randall Collins, who, in tracing the global history of philosophy, found only three thinkers whose ideas could reasonably be said to have developed alone: the first-century Taoist metaphysician Wang Ch'ung and, in the fourteenth century, the Zen mystic Bassui Tokusho and the Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun.

Lee is the first Korean man to reach the second round, let alone the fourth, of a Grand Slam event.

In its fourth week of release, it boasts $558.1m in North America alone, the fourth best figure ever.

In the fall, Calgary were thought to have little chance at the playoffs, let alone the second round.

With San Francisco Ballet alone, the third quarter-century has brought a higher artistic eminence than before.