How to Use first and foremost in a Sentence

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• This is an opera that is, first and foremost, a tribute to opera.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• You’re known first and foremost as a straight-up spitter.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• Try to work hard and be a good person first and foremost and a good teammate.
  — Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
• But first and foremost, the music has to be the most exciting thing.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• It’s always been a love story to me, first and foremost.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
• As for those reasons why, first and foremost: the academics.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2023
• Grammy night was, first and foremost, a night of women.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2024
• But of course, first and foremost, is the protection of the Red Hills Salamander.
  — Mary Helene Hall | [e-mail], al, 17 July 2023
• Our thoughts are first and foremost with the victims, their families and loved ones.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
• Craig Melvin is many things, but the Today host is first and foremost a Southerner.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 2 May 2024
• Tell me about your beauty tips–any rules or gold standards, first and foremost?
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2024
• Because a flight attendant's job, first and foremost, is to keep you safe, not serve you snacks.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2024
• While Yeti is first and foremost a brand for those who love the outdoors, Yeti is also a go-to brand for tailgaters across the country.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 25 Aug. 2023
• But Williams was, first and foremost, a winner, one of the most dominant ever.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
• The film is sold first and foremost by its precise performances.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• There’s smoke first and foremost on the palate, followed by notes of vanilla, lemon, rubber, and black pepper.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2023
• Sarah Wyman: Yeah, Mary Willard was first and foremost a professor of chemistry.
  — Sarah Wyman, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
• Cookie Week is first and foremost about joy — about getting in the kitchen and expressing your love through food.
  — Vaughn Vreeland David Marchese, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• Every artist of any tribe is first and foremost a storyteller.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 June 2024
• But the essential character of a mead is defined first and foremost by the honey used as a base.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
• There were plenty of retail gigs, first and foremost, as Coughlan struggled to make ends meet in her late 20s.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 13 June 2024
• Getting it right starts, first and foremost, with the four coaches who strode to the podium one by one Thursday in the McKay Center.
  — Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2024
• One thing Kroll realized is that Brooks’ movies are funny first and foremost.
  — Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Choose The Cart Consider, first and foremost, the material that's right for you.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2023
• The 50-year-old is described in his online obituary as first and foremost a father.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 24 June 2024
• And that really is first and foremost the reason David vs. Goliath became an all-time great.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
• To all the brides-to-be reading this, first and foremost, congratulations!
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
• Voles are, first and foremost, an important food source for foxes, owls, and other wildlife.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 5 Sep. 2023
• The priority was, first and foremost, the boys who would participate and the balance among them.
  — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 3 Aug. 2024
• What went into this, first and foremost, is a decade of Channing wanting to play this part and a decade of Channing almost playing this part at Fox.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024