firstborn

How To Use firstborn In A Sentence

• He proudly tells the storekeeper of the sweet shop that the sugar is for the mother of his firstborn son.
• And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
• Being the firstborn child doesn't just mean you get to stay up later; it also may win you the country.
• My mother is speaking with a male scribe, one I recognize as that of one of her real sons, her firstborn, my brother and nursemaid to some of my older sisters.
• Feasts and gifts were given to the mother and baby, especially for firstborn children, and at adolescence a formal naming ceremony was held.
• They love each other in their own way, but no longer know how to express their feelings, partly because they have never recovered from the death of their firstborn child.
• As a parent, Jo-Ann pondered how all their dreams and hopes for their firstborn child would never be realized.
• Sulloway says that \ "Firstborns sought to prove their revolutionary loyalties by their He finds that a laterborn who is removed and predilection for violence, not by their reared by a relative as a firstborn behaves devotion to liberalism\" (p. 313). like a typical firstborn. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• She had known for some time her brother was weak, that what her aunt had called innocence was really spoiled pettish childishness; that being a boy, the firstborn, and beautiful, Nate had always been the prince of his own tiny kingdom. Clockwork Angel
• At age 18 months, his firstborn only son died of diptheria. Growth in Flour, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty