Sentence examples for at first of all from inspiring English sources

Even as assorted cable-chat commentators were savoring the style of this sally ("I think Dick Cheney did awfully well at, first of all, putting John Edwards in his place," Andrea Mitchell said on MSNBC), its substance was collapsing like an overcooked yellowcake.

DL: What impresses me the most is when you look at, first of all, just them as a group and the variety.

"We need a determined Yaya, a Yaya that is physically at 100 percent, psychologically at 100 percent to first of all take us to the second round," Lamouchi added.

Criticism, if it's worth anything at all, is, first of all, self-criticism.

Not at all O.K. First of all, Jonah, you have to listen to me.

The audience at Carey's press conference erupted in laughter, but Carey later denied that she was making a dig at Kim. "First of all, I don't read the tabloids unless it's about me," she told Extra.

We did not hear him at first because of all the chaos.

These included at first, prohibition of all inbound land traffic, later replaced by quarantine detention camps at which inbound travelers were required to remain at first 7, later 4 days.

If they were to land anywhere on Earth at present, extraterrestrials would first of all be invading airspace.

Forbes: Looking at the current crisis, first of all, why do you think it happened?

First of all, at no point in my story do I describe immigrants themselves as "illegals".