How to Use first love in a Sentence

first love

noun
  • Your first love always sticks with you, and so does your first house.
    Parker Bowie Larson, ELLE Decor, 12 May 2023
  • Elliott Hill, 60, just can’t seem to quit his first love.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Lucha remains his first love, but Saúl can’t find a lane.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Raised in the ways of the Gulf Coast, Buffett’s first love in sports was minor league baseball.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Between the charms of first love and the nuances of friendship, this teen movie is a winner.
    Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Wildlife was my first love and passion, and art came later.
    The Editors, Field & Stream, 16 May 2024
  • The film plays like a sweet story about friendship and first love, set within the road trip genre.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 Feb. 2023
  • My best friend, Nadine, and the boy who would later become my first love found me and took their seats next to me.
    Jovita Trujillo, refinery29.com, 13 May 2024
  • Mercury left all of his possessions to his first love and close friend, Mary Austin.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
  • He is stunted enough to still be hung up on his first love in his thirties—and yet too shy to own up to his feelings.
    Hazlitt, 15 May 2024
  • Joann carried profound grief after her first love died in a car wreck.
    Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
  • Kamali said art had always been her true passion and her first love.
    Sydney Carruth, AZCentral.com, 2 July 2023
  • As Black women, so many of us have received our first love lessons from our mothers who have been there and done that.
    Jasmine Elise, Essence, 11 May 2024
  • Bluegrass was his first love, along with the hillbilly jazz of Vassar Clements.
    Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Appetite for Destruction was my first love, and Skid Row.
    Kate Sullivan, SPIN, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The first season was so much about first love and so many of her early albums related to that.
    Ana Osorno, Town & Country, 14 July 2023
  • This might surprise you, but tennis was not Billie Jean King’s first love.
    Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • Or some people say your first love is puppy love, but your second love is the real love, and there are only two loves.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
  • But in Season Two, the series leaves first love behind for much murkier waters.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2023
  • All the ventures by the Mythos crew didn’t last as long their first love, but their efforts helped Charlotte evolve culturally.
    Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Astronomy was my first love, looking up at the night sky and wondering what was out there.
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • Schafer co-stars as Jules Vaughn, a trans high schooler who’s new in town and desperate to figure out if first love with Rue is worth the potential hurt.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Bagels are a first love for owner Jason Kaplan, whose mother packed him a bagel and cream cheese (and sometimes lox) for lunch every day as a child.
    The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
  • The official season 2 trailer showed a tender reunion with her and Taissa, who no doubt needs to find solace in the arms of her first love.
    Radhika Menon, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Her first love, Atlas — played by Brandon Sklenar — reemerges, shaking things up.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • This pop country anthem paints a picture of the cutest first love — sneaking around talking on the phone, wanting to kiss but being too nervous.
    Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Based on a manga by Aoi Hiiragi, Whisper of the Heart blends coming-of-age drama with a tale of fluttering first love.
    Matt Kamen, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • He’s taken her parents, her first love, all her relatives.
    Olivia Waite, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • While twin-ion engines are his specialty, his first love will always be the T-16 Skyhopper.
    Zarnon Kalgon, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • Their relationship is presented with all the tender innocence of first love, and Steigerwalt has the pair near skipping through meadows.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024

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