Sentence examples for have first played from inspiring English sources

The road then leads to a honky-tonk where young Louis sneaked listens to the black cornet players Buddy Bolden, Joe Oliver and Bunk Johnson, then to the Colored Waifs' Home for Boys, where he might have first played the cornet, holding the instrument improperly enough against his lips so that he eventually mangled them.

She had first played these two roles in 1880.

He had first played the game as a teenager.

The Clintons had first played, Schlesinger reported, with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on Martha's Vineyard.

Mr. Grenadier and Mr. Ballard had first played together during high school in Northern California.

Happy had first played a small cafe there in the early 1960s, and moved there in 1967.

In "Chimes at Midnight," Welles assumes the role of Falstaff, which he had first played in his youth.

I had first played with Ian for England a year before when we were 'blackwashed' by West Indies.