How to Use first love in a Sentence

first love

noun
  • There’s a lot of shows about firsts — first job, first love.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
  • Tap has always been my first love.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
  • There’s nothing like your first love.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
  • My first love came from trying on my first princess dress.
    — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 11 June 2026
  • Your first love always sticks with you, and so does your first house.
    — Parker Bowie Larson, ELLE Decor, 12 May 2023
  • Acting wasn’t Avots’ first love.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
  • But the first love for all three will always be music.
    — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 15 June 2026
  • History was and still is her first love.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Music was Samer Ghani's first love.
    — Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Kamali said art had always been her true passion and her first love.
    — Sydney Carruth, AZCentral.com, 2 July 2023
  • Agriculture was the first love.
    — Reid Rasner, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Joann carried profound grief after her first love died in a car wreck.
    — Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
  • Corrin’s first love was theater.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 31 May 2026
  • Though softball is her first love, football is a close second.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Nellie Hurwitz doesn’t have a first love.
    — Nora Dahlia, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • That was my first love of performing, of telling stories.
    — Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Performing on stage was always my first love.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Lawrence, meanwhile, said his first love growing up was baseball.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Bryce Johnson’s first love was football.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • The film plays like a sweet story about friendship and first love, set within the road trip genre.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But basketball was always his first love.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Sully finds an innocent sort of first love with a childhood friend.
    — Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2025
  • My greatest love is my family, my first love is football.
    — Katie Whyatt, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • And rest assured, this isn’t Oprah’s first love from Mali + Lili.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
  • And rest assured, this isn’t Oprah’s first love from Mali + Lili.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
  • And rest assured, this isn’t Oprah’s first love from Mali + Lili.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2025
  • That makes sense, of course, in that this is the story of a first love, a small town, quieter horrors.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Between the charms of first love and the nuances of friendship, this teen movie is a winner.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Comedy was always my first love.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Baseball, however, is his first love.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026

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