How to Use first-person in a Sentence

first-person

adjective
  • This new book is in the first-person.
    — Literary Hub august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • How much of that is first-person accounts and how much of it is sourced?
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2023
  • One of the best things a first-person action game can have is a great kick.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
  • If the original was first-person, try third.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That’s three first-person pronouns in one sentence.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Videos about first-person experiences got the most likes and views.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024
  • First of all, they’re all told from a narrow first-person perspective.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Among that footage is over 500 hours of first-person video from the week of the attacks.
    — Solcyré Burga, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Read more about the upcoming first-person shooter right here.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This latest attack involved dozens of small, first-person view drones.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2025
  • That pairs well with the game’s first-person shooter elements.
    — Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 19 Apr. 2023
  • By ninth grade his passion turned to first-person shooter video games like Quake 2.
    — Michael Del Castillo, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Not all of these first-person works are good, but more of them means that some will be good, even fascinating.
    — Mae Ngai, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The result is a first-person story with much of the person removed.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Mighty Doom Doom is a first-person shooter first and foremost.
    — Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Still, there is a kernel of truth in these first-person vlogs and alternative news sources.
    — T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In between the longer third-person chapters are short sections in the first-person.
    — Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • Also the name of a classic first-person shooter video game series.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Employing first-person sources can re-humanize our study of the past.
    — Hans Zeiger, National Review, 4 June 2023
  • Check out this GoPro first-person vantage point.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Austin’s video, which has since gone viral, shows a first-person perspective of his brief battle with the shark.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The title has had many versions since and is a very popular first-person shooter game.
    — Andrew Blankstein, NBC news, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Though these same students loved to write first-person narratives in the second-person point of view.
    — Hazlitt, 11 June 2025
  • And the game world is viewed as a series of dioramas, less likely to cause nausea than a first-person view.
    — Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Some social media posts and first-person accounts of the flooding were censored.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Chapter Six is twenty-four first-person monologues, none of whom are Tunde.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Slasher films do not lead to real-life violence, just as first-person-shooter video games don’t.
    — Robert Niles, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Write stretches of it in the first, and then do the opposite when the story is supposed to be first-person in the first place.
    — Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
  • The game is a horror investigation survival game played from a first-person point of view.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 3 June 2025
  • Visitors who held up their phones to bar codes were taken to a website that voiced their first-person narratives.
    — Elliot Spagat, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023

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