Sentence examples for never the first from inspiring English sources
War must be the last resort – never the first choice".
And then all that construction work is hidden away, so that it's never the first thing you notice.
The killer is never the first person they arrest, just like it's never the most obvious suspects or the person who is ostensibly the good guy.
In 2001 Iain Duncan Smith was never the first choice of MPs in three rounds of voting, losing out twice to Michael Portillo and then to Kenneth Clarke.
"It is never the first choice," the administration official said, describing the position Mr. Bush would set out on the use of force.
"I never, the first day I met with you guys, I never said anything about any player," Walsh said in April, repeating a lecture he had given many times.
He also took 219 wickets at 28.05 but in his five years with the county he was never the first-choice spin bowler: in his first two seasons, Somerset used Australian-born slow left-arm orthodox bowler John McMahon as the main spin bowler, with young off-spin bowler Brian Langford also bowling more than McCool.
"You never talk about the eventuality of life-long treatment, never during the first meeting.
Nope, never eclipses the first or second.
He never finished the first grade.
I'll never forget the first night I cried here.
