How to Use first offender in a Sentence

first offender

noun

• Because he was a first offender, he was put on probation rather than sentenced to jail.
• Like whiskey, the penalties are stiff: A first offender risks a $500 fine and a weeklong suspension of the bar’s liquor license.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
• Ashleigh Merchant, one of Duke’s defense attorneys, asked for him to be sentenced as a first offender and be released on the time already served in jail.
  — Alexis Stevens, ajc, 23 May 2022
• Kaderli had no additional charges in jail, and Niedrach granted his request to be treated as a first offender.
  — Chris Joyner, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
• Prison, for nonviolent first offenders, is more of a problem than a solution.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 2 Oct. 2019
• Stone faces a maximum 50 years in prison for the charges, although a first offender would face far less time under federal sentencing guidelines.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• He is sentenced to three years of probation, $390 in fines, one day in jail, three months of a first offender alcohol program and victim impact counseling.
  — Michele Corriston, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2022
• In 2009, he was charged with underage drinking, a case that also was later dismissed under a first offender's program.
  — Author: Robert O'Harrow Jr., Shawn Boburg, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2018
• The charge of making false statements carries up to a five-year prison sentence, but federal guidelines for a first offender include probation.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
• But Mr Sessions also wants to lock up first offenders, who can be detained for up to six months by immigration authorities.
  — The Economist, 2 June 2018
• An ex-Clayton County sheriff’s deputy, indicted after a man was repeatedly punched on the pavement in 2020, entered a guilty plea in June and was sentenced as a first offender.
  — Jozsef Papp, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
• Laye also faces charges of obstruction of an officer and possession of a firearm by a first offender probationer.
  — Raisa Habersham, ajc, 13 June 2018
• Chartier argued that jail was an unfit punishment for Klages as a non-violent first offender, and because of her age and a heart murmur, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Anna Liz Nichols, Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
• Crossing the border without documents and attempting to elude border authorities is a misdemeanor for first offenders.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019
• No nonviolent first offender, other than a perpetrator of egregious crimes, such as Bernard Madoff, should be imprisoned; they should be punished in other, more efficient and less costly ways, such as obligatory spartan living and contributed work.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 2 Oct. 2019
• Bjerke was one of the first offenders identified in Virginia using forensic genealogy, an increasingly common technique for solving cold cases where police have little evidence beyond DNA.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024