Sentence examples for first read that from inspiring English sources

I was 17 when I first read that sentence, and already well acquainted with alcoholism.

The lines are the last in the five-part "The Wellfleet Whale," one of Kunitz's better known works, written in 1981 and first read that year at Harvard as the Phi Beta Kappa poem.

When I first read that sentence, I was struck by a double meaning.

When I first read that number -- 800,000 -- I thought it was a typographical error.

"When I first read that, I thought it was dumb and reactive," Mr. O'Connor said.

I missed a beat when I first read that, thinking, Is that all?

First, reads that are almost fully aligned to the reference sequence (i.e. only a few bases extend past the breakpoint) can be aligned with mismatches in the global alignment portion of the BWA algorithm.

First, reads that aligned to human rRNA sequences were discarded.

First, reads that either mapped to within 600 bp of known, fixed full length L1 elements or those reads that did not map unambiguously were discarded, as they represented either known elements or unmappable reads.

First, reads that matched rRNA, tRNA, snRNA, snoRNA, repeat sequences, and other ncRNAs deposited in Rfam (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/software/Rfam) [48] and the GenBank noncoding RNA database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) were discarded.

What was the first book you read that affected you in a big way?