Sentence examples for first and last time from inspiring English sources

Suggestions(5)

for a second and last time

first and last lead

first and only time

first and last dance

first and last meeting

"first and last time" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to emphasize that something happened or will happen only once. For example: "I went to the beach for the first and last time this summer."

Exact(60)

That'll be the first and last time.

Independent

That was the first and last time I went.

The New York Times - Arts

This put theth even for the first and last time.

The New York Times

That was the first and last time I dropped acid.

The Guardian - Music

Elena told me that this was the first and last time that Vladimir apologized for anything.

The New Yorker

It was the first and last time we ever went out to a dinner like that.

The New Yorker

I vividly remember the first and last time that I cried while watching a sporting event.

The New Yorker

"That was the first and last time an Israeli Prime Minister succumbed to an American diktat".

The New Yorker

And so this is the first and last time Roth can win a Booker.

The New Yorker

"It was probably the first and last time I saw Twyla cry.

The New York Times - Arts

She presses her wet face against Calliope's and, for the first and last time, they kiss.

The New Yorker

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first and last foray

first and last joke

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