Sentence examples for believed the first from inspiring English sources
For most of the 20th century, archaeologists believed the first residents of the Americas arrived 13,200 years ago and belonged to the so-called Clovis culture, defined by their distinctive fluted stone tools.
The same people who believed the first story refused to believe the second, and vice versa.
A clockmaker by trade, Rittenhouse built mathematical instruments and, it is believed, the first telescope in the United States.
He became, it is believed, the first person in America to be killed by a motor vehicle.
The Bushmen of southern Africa believed the first human was born when a bee planted a seed in a mantis's body.
Until last week's unexpectedly hawkish statement from the US Federal Reserve, traders believed the first UK rise might not occur until 2017.
The activist faction believed the Fourteenth Amendment did give the necessary authority and were pushing to go ahead.
The Historical Bureau of the Italian Navy believes the first theory to be more believable, but doubt still persists.
"We believe the First Amendment probably prohibits such a scheme".
