Sentence examples for knowing firsthand from inspiring English sources
Mr. Kirby denied condoning or knowing firsthand of any voting improprieties, saying Ms. Horwitz had also campaigned on campus.
And when he organized the first games in 1939, knowing firsthand how tough the times were, he refused to charge parents for the privilege of having their children in his league.
Mostly, he liked his humility, not hat-in-hand, eyes-cast-down humility, but a humility evolved from a sense of knowing firsthand what poverty was, and how fragile and elusive success can be.
I have been fortunate enough to have gotten through, at long last, to family and friends; but it is not the same as seeing them with your own eyes and knowing firsthand that the people you hold dear are safe and sound.
Knowing firsthand the lack of opportunity for apprenticeships in Russia, he has surrounded himself with home-grown talent, working together at his Moscow workshop.
Knowing firsthand the empowering impact the competition could have on the lives of local women, she revitalized the Nevada program.
And then there was the wacky perfection of his description of the later Mailer, with its implications of knowing (not firsthand certainly; Mailer, as far as I know, had never been his patient) the inside story: he had, under stress, found appropriate genre subjects.
And though her mother shared memories of the family matriarch, Ms. Altman, 28, never forged that singular connection that comes from knowing someone firsthand.
"Somewhere" is partly a wry and knowing comedy of show-business life, a life Ms. Coppola, who comes from a tribe of filmmakers, composers and actors, surely knows firsthand.
And Mr. Steinberg knows firsthand about unrealistic expectations.
