Sentence examples for makes a first from inspiring English sources

Don't call petty traveling when a player is on the periphery and makes a first step.

The story changed by the hour over the day, and will continue to change as Pistorius makes a first appearance in court on Friday and investigations continue.

The chart below makes a first stab at such a calculation, but requires some further comment; when all is said and done, the role of government hasn't actually grown.

When the offensive team makes a first down, a crew member on the field calls in the location of the marker and a computer operator in the video production outpost enters the measurement into the system.

Sweetney, a muscular power player from Georgetown, makes a first impression as a determined worker on the boards, an unpretentious throwback who can get to the foul line and make his free throws.

Like the one where CK makes a first date so unendingly awkward that the subject of his nervous smile runs from him and jumps into a nearby helicopter which flies her away.

It's no wonder he makes a first-rate movie saint.

(Gas in a Coke bottle, however, makes a first-rate Molotov cocktail).

But it's a perfectly palatable hors d'oeuvre in that it anticipates greater things to come from Mr. Payne, who has obviously since found the "it" that makes a first-rate playwright.

Ms. Dowd, dressed by Westie Grosh in a succession of elegant Chanel-style knock-offs, makes a first-rate Nora, her Boston Brahmin nasal twang in place and her forehead in a perpetually bemused scowl.

What makes a first-class seat so covetable?