How to Use first-person in a Sentence

first-person

adjective
  • One of the best things a first-person action game can have is a great kick.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
  • How much of that is first-person accounts and how much of it is sourced?
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2023
  • In between the longer third-person chapters are short sections in the first-person.
    Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • By ninth grade his passion turned to first-person shooter video games like Quake 2.
    Michael Del Castillo, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In 1993, id released Doom, a first-person shooter about a husky space marine battling demons on the moons of Mars and in Hell.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • But these days, the musician is all-in on the world’s biggest first-person shooter, Call of Duty.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024
  • 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 scenes in The Zone of Interest, showing her hiding apples in the mud, come from her first-person accounts.
    Livia Paccariè, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
  • That pairs well with the game’s first-person shooter elements.
    Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The game has been compared to BioShock, the wildly popular first-person shooter launched in 2007.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • His first-person account is presented in color while Strauss’ version of the man is shot in black and white.
    Joey Morona, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • They can be mapped to replace face buttons or the L3 and R3 buttons, which are helpful in first-person shooters.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
  • This is the first novel by the poet and translator to be set in the United States, in the region where Novey grew up, and the first with first-person narration.
    Jeffrey Ann Goudie, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Employing first-person sources can re-humanize our study of the past.
    Hans Zeiger, National Review, 4 June 2023
  • The film is a raw, first-person account of the 2014 war in Gaza, when the filmmaker joined an ambulance crew to document the toll of the conflict on civilians.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Expect to see intense crashes on the racetrack, including some scenes shown from a first-person point of view.
    Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Forgiveness is, as much as vengeance, a concept that can be applied only from within the first-person point of view.
    Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Some social media posts and first-person accounts of the flooding were censored.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Marathon is based on the beloved first-person shooter Bungie initially released on macOS back in 1994.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In the 1990s, Jones began to experiment with taking first-person images of himself on the the water.
    Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
  • Many first-person novels read like pleas made to an imagined court, one of public or godly opinion.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The era becomes obvious as players explore the world in the girl’s first-person perspective.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The views shown are the first-person views of three HoloLens 2 users and one top-down view of a satellite map with all team members visible throughout the entire demonstration.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • But there are just as many that probably should have been left on the console, like the role-playing first-person shooter game, Borderlands.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The Game Menu also provides access to an on-screen crosshair that stays fixed in the center of the frame to improve aiming in first-person games and reduce motion sickness.
    PCMAG, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Love followed a few weeks later with a first-person essay about his anxiety.
    Tim Reynolds, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Like a camera panning across a set, the collective first-person narration slowly scans across the train platform, where a left shoe appears, then a right one: a new arrival.
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • With its intellectual earnestness, first-person grandiosity, and aesthetic extravagance, the film is more floridly and brazenly youthful than anything else Coppola has made.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024

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