How To Use First-class In A Sentence

He had to wait for the first-class passengers to deplane, of course, since even flag officers fly coach. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
When a first-class work of literature is made into a movie, one always feels that some essential quality has been lost: an engagement with language, a reflectiveness, a guiding intelligence.
The conductor worked hard for a first-class result, the cohesiveness of the entire composition leaving a most satisfying afterglow.
When he made that announcement, the prime minister presumably did not mean that the official would continue to do his first-class job until Wednesday evening, whereupon he would draft a truly top-hole letter of resignation.
It offers first-class dust pick-up thanks to a new floorhead especially designed for low wattages. Latest Press Releases

He is a first-class pianist and organist and has composed music and written and published his own poems.
The cost of a second-class stamp was cut by 1p in April 1999, while first-class stamps went up by 1p in 2000.
But while there were 13 firsts among men in computing and IT, only five women got a first-class honours degree in the area in 2000.
The big story this year is not how fast the gravy train keeps rolling, but who is occupying the first-class compartment. Times, Sunday Times
Being a first-class citizen is about that kind of civic engagement.
It is an indication of his stature as a journalist that even his arch enemy described him as "an extremely able man and a first-class newshawk."
Supposing Blair is correct, and parents do espy special, precious things that childless adults never can, it would still be reassuring to know that these are not outweighed by the associated burdens of exhaustion, continual interruption and prime ministerial anxiety about how to blag a first-class education without going private. Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett
I tried another tack and suggested that the company introduce a minimum standard of dress in first-class carriages. Times, Sunday Times
This promises first-class singing and colourful spectacle.
The bright side of Charley's inheritance lay in the fact that he possessed Samson 's first-class brain. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
He could easily join the ranks of those who find first-class cricket a bit of a mystery while Test cricket becomes a natural environment. Times, Sunday Times
A first-class degree puts you in a strong position. Times, Sunday Times
So while Henry droned -- and he was a first-class droner -- I tried to imagine him sending an anonymous threat. SUMMER OF SECRETS
Durham's recent experience has brought home the reality of the precarious situation around the first-class game. Times, Sunday Times
Most first-class footballers are natural athletes.
She always travels first-class regardless of expense.
The cases then can be placed in larger items for display, which then are called reliquaries and also count as a third-class relic for hosting the first-class relic. Coshoctontribune.com - Local News
This is, of course, a ridiculous contradiction and probably would qualify as a first-class oxymoron.
For me he is good, first-class. Times, Sunday Times
She always travels first-class regardless of expense.
Passengers willing to pay for a first-class ticket will still be able to eat hot food because complimentary food and drink will be served at their seats. Times, Sunday Times
I feel you would have a first-class high-selling novel if you could polish up the story in the areas I've mentioned.
Tom has just graduated with first-class honours in psychology.
He had to wait for the first-class passengers to deplane, of course, since even flag officers fly coach. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
In much of the current Ballet Tech repertory, of course, the issue of first-class classical-dance capability doesn't arise.
It added frills, like first-class sections. THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF MARKETING
One of the main causes, in first-class bureaucratese, is known as a combined sewer overflow.
He won a first-class degree in natural sciences in 1868 and, after a four-year dalliance with a career in medicine, was chosen for the Challenger expedition.
We want to produce a first-class product for your country. Times, Sunday Times
Under the proposal, a first-class stamp would go up 8.8 percent to 37 cents.
The megabucks stars will hope to put in a first-class display today. The Sun
The craggy, mellowing Eastwood directs himself admirably in this scenic, first-class oater, which strikes an ideal balance between character piece and action film as it portrays a rapidly changing way of life. John Farr: The Hard-Won Legacy of Gene Hackman
The forward part of the train is for first-class passengers only.
The academic attacker gained a first-class honours degree in economics with business management this year. The Sun
I know a place where the food is first-class.
By next year, the self-taught coffee grower hopes to have 200,000 plants producing first-class arabica - the gourmet's choice, already grown in Madagascar for the domestic market - from his estate in the mountains.
Buckingham Palace is thought to have booked all dozen seats in the rear first-class compartment to ensure that the couple were undisturbed. Times, Sunday Times
Yet despite this jollier presence, he demonstrated yet again that he's one of pop music's first-class growlers.
He was also determined to stay at the top of his year, but lower-than-expected marks in his finals deprived him of a first-class degree.
The big story this year is not how fast the gravy train keeps rolling, but who is occupying the first-class compartment. Times, Sunday Times
Zaria Academy will be ready to take its campaign for funds to expand its educational outreach and provide first-class education by September 2011. Atim Oton: Zaria Academy: Lessons on Preparing for Fundraising in Nigeria
Dubliners Dead Cat Bounce are a case in point: a first-class comedy band that have it in them to be Ireland's even scruffier answer to Flight Of The Conchords. This week's new comedy
The move is expected to result in first-class carriages running almost empty while there is standing room only in standard class. Times, Sunday Times
She stuck a first-class stamp on the letter.
(I) could care less Eric P. Hamp University of Chicago The Second Barnhart Dictionary of New English (1980), an excellently documented gain to our resources, carries a first-class entry for this troublesome collocution of care. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
First-class kitchen appliances and accessories, bringing E-time convenience to your home, draw a relaxing picture of modern housing life.
Also included are two first-class return Swiss transfer tickets. Times, Sunday Times
He has a first-class honours degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford.
Buckingham Palace is thought to have booked all dozen seats in the rear first-class compartment to ensure that the couple were undisturbed. Times, Sunday Times
The apparatus is of the first catadioptric order, lighted by a first-class pressure lamp. A Yacht Voyage Round England
She bought six first-class stamps, took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth.
First-class cars included a pit toilet that opened on the tracks passing below.
The only thing you can hear is either a rather throaty engine note that's easy on the ear or a first-class music system. The Sun
First-class accommodation is available on all flights.
Being a first-class citizen is about that kind of civic engagement.
Unlimited first-class travel within the UK is permitted as well as a mileage rate of 57.7p per mile for parliamentary business.
With the help of experts in Chile and Peru, where her father served, she made herself into a first-class rejoneadora., Mexico
The only other passengers in the first-class compartment were two security guards and a dozen paintings on loan from the Louvre. Times, Sunday Times
In the galaxy of first-class hams, this one most definitely deserves its spot.
This term is misleading, as the same risk factors may apply to first-class and business-class air travellers as well as travel by road and rail.
They can afford to eat at first-class restaurants.
An artist who received a first-class degree from a top London art school is showing her work in a joint exhibition in York.
He made his debut for Gloucestershire in 1981 and has taken more than 400 first-class wickets.
The next thing she knew, she was lying on the floor of the first-class compartment being worked on by two doctors.
So-called "first-class" proteins contain all the essential amino acids in the right balance. M. E. Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome - How To Live With It
It added frills, like first-class sections. THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF MARKETING
It includes hotel and guesthouse stays, and a night in a first-class sleeper carriage. Times, Sunday Times
He was educated at Abersychan County School and Balliol College, Oxford, coming out with a first-class honours degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
How much does a spinner need to bowl in first-class cricket to master his craft? Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, the Kerik nomination blew up in short order amid charges that Bernie was a first-class sleazoid and crook. Jackson Williams: Why Giuliani Is The Perfect Choice To Defend McCain's Views
In a very short time a butterfly was brought out, and harnessed to a first-class Johnny-jump-up. Ting-a-ling
The big story this year is not how fast the gravy train keeps rolling, but who is occupying the first-class compartment. Times, Sunday Times
If you do want a change from the Papillon restaurants, a host of first-class eateries are nearby.
Research shows that one third of doctors who did not get a job in the first round of interviews had a first-class degree or distinction. Times, Sunday Times
She took her degree with first-class honour.
He said that Forster, one of our first-class writers, had told him that the most characteristic speech was not reported, and mentioned the heads -- as, the slave-trade being of the same nature as thuggee, garrotting; the tribute The Personal Life of David Livingstone
Each first-class cavalryman, three or four second-class cavalrymen and sixteen infantrymen had a slave or paid servant to look after baggage and perform menial chores.
As he stuck a sceptical thumb into a tub of rock-hard Camembert, he knew he was facing a first-class mess.
More than a dozen first-class layouts, depicting railway scenes from this country and abroad, had been set up by model railway enthusiasts from all parts of the south, each one a joy to study.
This was "Taff" Williams, Stoker First-class, comedian tenth-class, and master of patter unintelligible (mercifully so, perhaps) to any but a bluejacket audience. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
Why have the number of upper second class and first-class degrees increased exponentially in the last 15 years? Times, Sunday Times
On one occasion, when I was going from Memphis to Cairo on the _Belle of Memphis_, a little game was started, and I won ten first-class mules. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
A student has earned a first-class degree with a video she made of the last days of her grandfather's life. Times, Sunday Times
Although he has played some club matches, this will be his initial first-class game.
Your MIL sounds like a first-class manipulator who has decided things are going to be a certain way.
Entering a first-class carriage, he was challenged by a fellow passenger. Times, Sunday Times
Anyway, if he were simply trying to disappear, a first-class ticket on a standard commercial airline would have done.
Other funds paid for their first-class travel or covered lavish gifts.
Although he's only an amateur he's a first-class player.
At least the club had a good jazz band, and a first-class cabaret.
So far, he has done precisely nothing - despite, as the telephone tap makes clear, having first-class intelligence.
She obtained a first-class pass in her final examination.
Entering the match with a first-class average of 28, he bettered the mark by one and started his Test tally with a glide through the cordon for a boundary.
So the two families packed their boys comfortably into a first-class compartment and stood around awkwardly, aching to weep and kiss and have something warming to remember, but stifled by their peculiar British mistrust of demonstrativeness. The Thorn Birds
Headley took more than 50 wickets in two seasons at Middlesex after making his first-class debut for the county in 1991.
`If you don't go to this lecture tonight, you're a first-class rotter. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
He could easily join the ranks of those who find first-class cricket a bit of a mystery while Test cricket becomes a natural environment. Times, Sunday Times
No democracy in the world would divide its citizens into two or three classes: Ashkenazi being first-class citizens, Sephardi and Falasha being arguably the second, and last & indeed least, the unwanted pesky Arabs put in some sort of non-citizenship status. Global Voices in English » Morocco: On “Jewish Morocco”
I see that Shane Warne has taken more wickets in Tests than in other first-class matches.
The megabucks stars will hope to put in a first-class display today. The Sun
Vaughan finishes his coffee and follows me down the platform into the first-class carriage, where I've reserved two seats.
In 1914 he graduated with first-class honours as an associate.
One needs to be a first-class driver to get the best out of that sort of machinery.
She bought six first-class stamps, took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth.
He established himself in a corner of a first-class compartment, his back comfortably towards the engine. Times, Sunday Times
In the course of the evening, you get a thriller, a comedy, a drama, and a farce, which, together, add up to a feast of first-class theatre.
This season is crucial for her, since she needs to succeed as a matador in first-class bullrings, as she has as a novillero.
As a raw-boned 26-year-old who had already been playing first-class rugby for almost a decade, Telfer made his debut for the Lions on the 1966 tour to New Zealand.
For the ruffianish pages of Jack London, the pungent, hospitable smell of a first-class bar-room -- that indescribable mingling of Maryland rye, cigar smoke, stale malt liquor, radishes, potato salad and _blutwurst_. Damn! A Book of Calumny
His altercation with a dressing-room locker has been a damaging one and he will have to further prove his fitness in first-class cricket before he returns. Times, Sunday Times
It includes hotel and guesthouse stays, and a night in a first-class sleeper carriage. Times, Sunday Times
To my mind, a first-class geisha is more analogous to a kept mistress in our culture than to a prostitute. Arthur Golden - An interview with author
Many of those trapped and injured were in the front first-class carriage, which took the brunt of the impact.
On one of her visits to San Sebastian del Oeste, a little mining village east of Puerto Vallarta and up in the mountains, she fell in love with a charming old hacienda, bought it ( "a major fixer-upper"), and she has been busy ever since, "Bringing it up to the quality level of a first-class bed and breakfast. Boomers in Paradise: Living in Puerto Vallarta
Haydn's musical genius created the perfect accompaniments and arrangements for the folk melodies, elevating them to first-class lieder.
As he stuck a sceptical thumb into a tub of rock-hard Camembert, he knew he was facing a first-class mess. WALL GAMES
His obituaries rightly said a hole has been left in the Commons, that he was a first-class hellraiser and an incomparable character.
He now faces the less than enticing prospect of continuing a first-class career without the carrot of international cricket. Times, Sunday Times
He bowled his last delivery in first-class cricket, at the end of an inconsequential match for Durham against the 1993 Australian tourists, with his member hanging out of his trousers, an act which Wisden coyly described as "unbecoming and flippant". Ian Botham by Simon Wilde - review
He played no first-class cricket last summer and missed a month of limited-overs action with a hand injury. Times, Sunday Times
He now faces the less than enticing prospect of continuing a first-class career without the carrot of international cricket. Times, Sunday Times
Lounge bar and restaurant offering a first-class menu. Extremely attractive locality.
The only other passengers in the first-class compartment were two security guards and a dozen paintings on loan from the Louvre. Times, Sunday Times
Durham's recent experience has brought home the reality of the precarious situation around the first-class game. Times, Sunday Times
He was educated at Abersychan County School and Balliol College, Oxford, coming out with a first-class honours degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
That should get me and my wife two first-class return flights to Australia. Times, Sunday Times
With an inexpensive sound system, artillery simulators and a reworked range, he provides soldiers with a first-class movement to contact experience.
A leader must be able to think about her group, organization, system, and herself and be a first-class noticer of internal Strengths and Weaknesses and external Ms. JD - Changing the Face of the Legal Profession
It was a first-class test of analysis, selection and integration which demonstrated a student's ability to think clearly before making a judgment.
The first-class people overlooked the red bars on our spouse badges and let us in when Diana Ross came to entertain.
How much does a spinner need to bowl in first-class cricket to master his craft? Times, Sunday Times
Hubay was a first-class pedagog, and under his instruction one could not help becoming a well-balanced and musicianly player. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
He found an empty first-class compartment, and she reached it by way of the corridor after the train had pulled out.
James Griffin is a first-class writer for television, but this, his second stage play, is a fizzer.
The instructors are first-class and I feel so sorry for them to have seen this happen.
The teak-bodied carriage has two first-class compartments - one for smokers and the other for non-smokers - and two toilets.
The car was in first-class condition.
She bought six first-class stamps, took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth.
Anyway, if he were simply trying to disappear, a first-class ticket on a standard commercial airline would have done.
The choice between two first-class schools does not matter as much as the choice between one that its outstanding and another that is mediocre. Times, Sunday Times
I know a place where the food is first-class.
The only other passengers in the first-class compartment were two security guards and a dozen paintings on loan from the Louvre. Times, Sunday Times
Buckingham Palace is thought to have booked all dozen seats in the rear first-class compartment to ensure that the couple were undisturbed. Times, Sunday Times
There's still a pubby feel to this rambling old inn - although a strong relationship with local suppliers has transformed the place into a first-class brasserie and restaurant.
First-class post services in York have improved, despite problems across the region as Royal Mail failed to meet a raft of targets.
Last year the first-class letter service achieved record improvements in reliability.
Supposing Blair is correct, and parents do espy special, precious things that childless adults never can, it would still be reassuring to know that these are not outweighed by the associated burdens of exhaustion, continual interruption and prime ministerial anxiety about how to blag a first-class education without going private. Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett
a first-class mind
And but for an indifferent second season, he has piled on runs, averaging 49.7 from 35 first-class games.
Socrates has been described as a gadfly - a first-class pain.
The new Bounty Hunter external hammer shotgun, imported by European American Arms, is a first-class traditional scattergun.
Each stamp costs about double the price of generic first-class postage.
Five past pupils had this year obtained first-class Honours degrees, an achievement performed only once before, in 1950.
Britain's first female airline boss has switched to the first-class carriage of the train industry. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed Dulbecco's laboratory was filled with first-class postdoctoral fellows from around the world, who were trained in prokaryotic molecular biology and who came there intending to expand their research into eukaryotic molecular biology. Susumu Tonegawa - Autobiography
Although he's only an amateur he's a first-class player.
Much of the cash is said to have gone on luxury hotels, chauffeured limos and first-class flights as he lived the high life. The Sun
First-class travel is for posh people - it's not for the likes of us.
He won himself two first-class tickets to fly to Dublin.
She bought six first-class stamps, took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth.
The restaurant also presents first-class furniture and wall ornaments that create a romantic atmosphere, making it resemble a ubiquitous brasserie in France.
Could I have three first-class stamps, please?
The skiing here is first-class, too, with 200km of pisted runs up to an altitude of nearly 3,000 metres. Times, Sunday Times
On-time is defined as overnight delivery of first-class mail within major cities.
The human brain runs first-class simulation software. Times, Sunday Times
How much does a spinner need to bowl in first-class cricket to master his craft? Times, Sunday Times
In each case first-class and third-class products would produce the same end result, but would differ in their appurtenances and would appeal to distinct markets.
It is the fourth highest partnership for the third wicket in first-class cricket anywhere in the world. Times, Sunday Times
Between online bill payment and email, you'd think that we're using fewer first-class stamps than a decade ago.
The big story this year is not how fast the gravy train keeps rolling, but who is occupying the first-class compartment. Times, Sunday Times
It is not the most appropriate passenger facility and, indeed, we think we can create a cruise terminal in the bays precinct that offers passenger amenity, that is able to meet international passenger security standards and that provides a first-class, world facility. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
He gained first-class honours in history in 1933 and held a research fellowship while writing his doctoral thesis. Times, Sunday Times
Clark was a first-class planner and organizer of the forces under his command, but his defining characteristics were conceit and vanity.
It provides first-class comfort and refinement on long motorway journeys, and effortless overtaking power thanks to the combined torque of diesel and electrics working together. Times, Sunday Times
These matriarchies do only good in the world, and wasps in particular are first-class predators when it comes to other, less attractive insects. BROAD CAST, 1 SEPTEMBER 2007
Their resort hotels, like most of their city centre establishments, were aimed at customers seeking first-class or even de luxe accommodation.
His second came at the ticket booth, where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to.
On the flip side, I do believe that if it is ever completed and fully crewed it will be producing significant amounts of first-class research in microgravity.
He made his only first-class appearance two years ago. Times, Sunday Times
We want to produce a first-class product for your country. Times, Sunday Times
You are better off being prosperous and paying tax than going down in the first-class cabins of a sinking ship.
There are always a lot of low scores in first-class cricket. Times, Sunday Times
He knew that his daughter had made great strides in social elevation, and that her children, when he had seen them last, had been quite like "gentlefolk's children;" but to see this young princess step forth graciously out of a first-class carriage, and address him as "grandpapa," took away his breath. Phoebe, Junior
At the new market complex at Wincot Lands, he forms part of a sales team that includes fieldsmen Andrew and Philip Cook and is looking forward to providing a first-class service to clients.
He played first-class cricket at university. The Sun
Send it by first-class mail.
She soon acquired a reputation as a first-class cook.
Those on-board enjoyed the new, lavish dining room, savoring excellent cuisine and first-class service.
The fourth-class zone rated parcels and first-class mail have virtually identical historical elasticities.
The company introduces the domestic first-class production equipment, uses the international leading encaustic tile production technology and the coloring craft, presently has production base two.
He now faces the less than enticing prospect of continuing a first-class career without the carrot of international cricket. Times, Sunday Times
And out of a first-class carriage a hand waved back. The Railway Children
She was the offspring of fisherfolk, who had taken a first-class degree at Oxford. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
He admitted that there was a long way to go to make it a first-class theatre for dramatic works.
The show is packed full of stirring anthems, plaintive laments and unforgettable love songs sung by a first-class cast and backed by the Lyric Opera Orchestra.

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