How to Use first-person in a Sentence
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One of the best things a first-person action game can have is a great kick.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
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How much of that is first-person accounts and how much of it is sourced?
—Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2023
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In between the longer third-person chapters are short sections in the first-person.
—Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
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By ninth grade his passion turned to first-person shooter video games like Quake 2.
—Michael Del Castillo, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That pairs well with the game’s first-person shooter elements.
—Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 19 Apr. 2023
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The game has been compared to BioShock, the wildly popular first-person shooter launched in 2007.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Employing first-person sources can re-humanize our study of the past.
—Hans Zeiger, National Review, 4 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Some social media posts and first-person accounts of the flooding were censored.
—Li Yuan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
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Marathon is based on the beloved first-person shooter Bungie initially released on macOS back in 1994.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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The era becomes obvious as players explore the world in the girl’s first-person perspective.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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Love followed a few weeks later with a first-person essay about his anxiety.
—Tim Reynolds, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2024
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The camera hovers over her hand holding a bloody piece of toilet paper in a shot that is almost from a first-person perspective.
—Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
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These first-person accounts have been lightly edited and condensed.
—Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
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The new findings bookend the company’s Q4 report which found that 42% of Gen Z admitted to committing first-person fraud.
—Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 1 July 2024
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The narration is based on first-person accounts by Corvo of his upbringing in a household that shaped his anti-Fascist views and his wartime endeavors.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2024
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