How to Use first family in a Sentence

first family

noun
  • My father kept us away from his first family.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • But that does not mean the first family's children are kept out of sight.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Reese was one of the first family members to speak at the service.
    — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Our first family car was a Volvo.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • My parents were there, and so to me that felt like our first family vacay, a proper one.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The action heats up in the last half hour, as Rutledge closes in on the first family.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The Bidens weren’t the only first family to show the Obamas love at the event.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 18 June 2026
  • Johnson took jabs at Trump in the show’s open, including jokes about the first family.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The move adds to other recent drone investments for the first family.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The whole gang are Beats by Dre’s first family brand ambassadors.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The other family then entered the park and stood in the same area where the first family was standing.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • Robert's brother Wayne Skankey, was the first family member to speak.
    — Christian Cervantes, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Here’s how the president’s son got the first family into the business.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Marvel’s first family is back on the big screen to save the universe again — and maybe the Marvel universe, too.
    — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
  • The saga reflects the painful dynamics of the first family, shaped by intense ambition and deep loss, along with anger and guilt.
    — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The first family has openly admired others willing to amass bitcoin.
    — Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • But, when the first family decided to return him, fate intervened.
    — David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Starting with their father Mark, the Maye’s are the first family of Chapel Hill.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 2 Sep. 2023
  • There, villains involved in a huge cryptocurrency scheme take over the hotel where the first family is staying.
    — Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
  • Their embrace with both parents was a touching moment for the first family of Wisconsin golf.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2023
  • Crypto experts say there are a few ways to take in the news that the first family is putting out coins with value pegged only to what their fans are willing to pay for them.
    — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2025
  • That unit — boasting hundreds of agents — is charged with protecting the current president and the first family.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Inaugural ceremonies usually put the first family on view as the new face of a nation.
    — Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The news complicates life for Biden ahead of an election and sent the first family into a hasty and literal retreat.
    — Philip Wegmann, Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2024
  • The long lawn to the south remained mostly off-limits—but not for security reasons so much as keeping nosy tourists away from the first family.
    — Neil Flanagan, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • As the eldest child of the Ramsay clan, Megan was the first family member to receive a college degree.
    — Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
  • As the eldest child of the Ramsay clan, Megan was the first family member to receive a college degree.
    — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • As a member of the first family of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Gracie is considered the best of them all.
    — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
  • But since her youth, the youngest child of the first family has largely withdrawn from the public eye in favor of a quiet life in her home state of Georgia.
    — Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The entire first family has been met with protesters on behalf of Palestinians during their stay.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 25 Nov. 2023

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