Sentence examples for the first person to cross from inspiring English sources
He was the first person to cross the Atlantic on a raft made of garbage.
As the first person to cross the village threshold that day, the honour became mine.
In the perfect race you are the first person to cross the finish line.
He was not the first person to cross the Atlantic on a raft; he was the second.
He hopes to enter the history books again by becoming the first person to cross both polar ice caps and climb the highest mountain on every continent.
His record-breaking ambitions are clearly not over: he already has the permits in place to become the first person to cross the Grand Canyon on a wire.
Reilly, reached by phone at home in Oradell, traced the museum's origin to a dinner in 1970, when, while doing P.R. for the airport, he met Clarence Chamberlin, the second person to cross the Atlantic to mainland Europe, two weeks after Charles Lindbergh, in a plane built in Paterson.
Gail Donovan of Brookline, Mass., was rushing to buy tickets to a Mostly Mozart concert with the pianist Emanuel Ax when officials from Lincoln Center sprang the surprise: She was the one-millionth person to cross the threshold since Lincoln Center took over an atrium in a nearby apartment building three years ago.
The first person to be killed trying to cross the wall was Gunter Litfin, on 24 August 1961.
He was not the first person to make the crossing on a raft; a Canadian man did it in 1956.
In 1930, McClintock was the first person to describe the cross-shaped interaction of homologous chromosomes during meiosis.
