Sentence examples for string of firsts from inspiring English sources

Widnall's CV includes a long string of firsts.

Last July she added to her string of firsts by leading the flight in space after the Columbia disaster in 2003.

Seiko of Japan handily cornered that market with a string of firsts — the world's first titanium diver's watch in 1975, for instance — helping to secure quartz's role in the sports world.

Mead was responsible for a string of firsts in the semiconductor industry, and as a professor at the California Institute of Technology he taught many of Silicon Valley's most famous technologists.

The New Yorker, September 19 , 1959P. 33 Since newspapers dote on recording first times...the press had a happy week or so describing the President's recent trip abroad, in the course of which he ran up a whole string of firsts.

Subsequent novels have won her a string of firsts - the first black author to have a book chosen by the Book of the Month Club in more than 30 years, the first black woman to grace the cover of Newsweek magazine in almost 40 and, of course, the first black American woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.

The EU referendum campaign has been marked by a string of second world war comparisons throughout.

He misfired repeatedly down the stretch in Chicago, adding to a string of fourth-quarter failures this season.

She has improved her serve, especially the second serve, and that was demonstrated all too clearly on Monday with a string of second serve aces.

Early on, the tenors extend the word "valley" in a string of eighth notes, a quickening of the line that leads to a more luxurious stasis.

Now a string of second-quarter corporate earnings announcements due over the next few weeks could confirm that companies are beginning to have a harder time.