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How to use at first in a sentence

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Cummings even had to ask the identity of the Irish member of the quadrumvirate, assuming at first it was Yeats.
Jeff said at first it felt uncomfortable, as if his hands were higher and the heel of his club was off the ground.
I'm trying to make sense of what appears at first sight to be the decline of the online journal.
It's a little too jazzy for my tastes at first, but the last hour is great, sweaty, junglist action.
He said he had not known at first whether or not to sign the petition, as people might think he was biased.
It's far too soon to know if there will be any takers, but at first brush France still appears to be seeing red.
Yes, it was at first glance quaint and seemingly out of time, but it was also monumentally impressive and alive.
I was a bit nervous at first but everyone has been very nice and made me welcome.
I thought it was a squirrel at first glance, but then wambengers kind of do look similar to squirrels.
They seemed all right at first but I suppose you can't judge a book by its cover.
The befuddled hosts at first tried to jolly Stewart into being the good-natured guest they'd expected.
I've never read the book, I'm afraid to say and didn't understand this question at first.
Both of the women said Swaby had been charming and swept them off their feet at first, buying them lots of gifts.
Thus she began her account with a detailed description of the appropriate behaviour of a collector engaging at first hand with the people.
You slept when you could, but you were always awake at first and last light in case of a surprise attack.
I politely refused at first, but after their urgings I finally shamefacedly admitted that I could only eat food cooked with bottled water.
When we found someone to explain our situation, we were at first told to jump the queue, and then told that we would not make our flight.
Without being able to speak Khmer, there's only so much I can learn at first but still, I'm really looking forward to it.
This nettles her at first and gradually the anger and irritation give way to a secret longing for him to look at her.
Like a lot of instrumental guitar music, Man On Stilts comes across, at first, as music accompaniment for a '60s spaghetti western.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The unity expounded at first is simply an anima mundi, a living universe, but not intelligent.
An arm or anabranch, at first containing much water, and coming from the north, was on our right for some miles.
The plane of the actinal surface at first meets that of the abactinal at an acute or nearly right angle.
It was all in his favour that he should have been forced at first to win his spurs as an actor.
It is the adhesion of woman to this view of the case which puzzles us a little at first.
She would arouse at first a very few, and then a few more, and a few more, and so on ad infinitum.
However trifling this experiment may appear at first sight, it added a new fact to the science of aerostation.
The news seemed to stun both men at first, but the after-effect on each was wonderfully different.
Clouds at first gathered round the aiguille and Dme du Goter, casting the lower slopes of the mountain into intense gloom.
With that he re-entered his shop, while I strolled on at first aimlessly down the street.
He married Janet Moffat, and lived at first in comfortable circumstances at Airdrie, where he owned a cottage and a croft.
The Aleut boy did not at first reply, because he did not know how to do so.
The pores or alveoli are angular elongated, white at first, then straw-color.
According to its derivation the word anthem was at first synonymous with antiphony.
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