Sentence examples for first and essentially from inspiring English sources

They provided my first — and, essentially, my last — contact with nonacademic people.

It was the first and essentially only ecosystem discovered on Earth that did not rely on the sun for energy, leading to a new field of research, Dr. Collier said.

Averroes' solution is to say that our awareness of time is first and essentially our awareness of ourselves inasmuch as we have undergone some sort of change.

As for the chat extensions, Viber is taking a measured approach by launching only a few at first, and essentially building the extensions themselves or working closely with the third-party developers to do so.

Atlanta took control of the game with an 11-2 run to start the second, and essentially ended it with a 20-3 run to start the third.

The new party outdid all expectations, coming in third and essentially relegating one of Thailand's oldest parties into relative irrelevance by clinching a large number of seats in urban Bangkok.

Well: that it's all essentially unknowable – it is as difficult to answer the question of what Beethoven's Fifth Symphony really is as what Lemma-Icon-Epigram might be, if you think about it for a second – and essentially experiential, revealed in all of its elusive but definitive power through the evanescent illumination of performance.

When the Giants were about to get the ball back on a punt with two minutes left in the fourth quarter, the rookie Brandon Short was offside, giving Washington a first down and essentially ending the game.

The 5-yard penalty gave the Redskins a first down and essentially ended the game.

(They took first place and essentially tied the next team for take-home case, a little under $21K).

These types of areas where there are real working class people who work hard to buy their first property and essentially they might find it difficult in the future to sell this property on.