Below you will find example sentences with "first amendment". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

First Amendment in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: amendment
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 26
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.3 words

Words in this phrase

first amendment

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • first can mean: Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest. Very common word
  • amendment can mean: An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and unsettled first amendment issues center 1× as the first amendment protects the 1× benavidez a first amendment and voting 1× bound by first amendment limits on 1× felt his first amendment rights were 1× graduation speakers first amendment rights 1× has a first amendment right to 1× have a first amendment right to 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a federal judge 1× alliance defending freedom 1× although it is 1× at issue in 1× but the best 1× first liberty representatives 1×

Common sentence endings:

first amendment rights 2× algorithms or blockchain 1× being stepped on 1× face of injustice 1× first after all 1× first amendment lawsuits 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

rights 12× speech 7× free 4× religious 3× protects 3× court 3× public 3× bear 2× arms 2× express 2× sole 2× freedom 2×

Related phrases

first floor first lady first round first inning first leg first innings first phase first nations first sight first edition

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around amendment:

constitutional amendment 20× amendment rights 12×

Just before it in the phrase index:

first aid firms recently firing range fires burning firefighters responded fire weather

Just after it in the phrase index:

first anniversary first appearance first attempt first base first battle first bet

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

first floor first lady first round first inning first leg first innings

Same ending:

constitutional amendment citizenship amendment

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "first amendment" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and unsettled first amendment issues center, as the first amendment protects the, rights, speech and free stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first floor, first lady, first round, constitutional amendment and amendment rights, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with first amendment

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The First Amendment is the first, after all. (8 words)

A federal judge blocked it over concerns that it violated First Amendment rights. (13 words)

Again, for you to say that this case is not important on First Amendment grounds is beyond belief! (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Although it is a majority of the council that has supported this effort to explore the change in electing councilmembers, Najarian said he felt his “First Amendment rights” were violated because his opinion was not shared with the public. (39 words)

And if a Roman Catholic bishop, as a "corporation sole," and an incorporated closely-held business like Hobby Lobby, has First Amendment religious freedom rights, then why shouldn't a sole proprietorship have First Amendment free speech rights? (38 words)

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind. (38 words)

Question examples

And if a Roman Catholic bishop, as a "corporation sole," and an incorporated closely-held business like Hobby Lobby, has First Amendment religious freedom rights, then why shouldn't a sole proprietorship have First Amendment free speech rights? (38 words)

Exclamation examples

Again, for you to say that this case is not important on First Amendment grounds is beyond belief! (18 words)

Example sentences (20)

In our zeal to protect the Second Amendment right to bear arms, we fail to realize that to lose your First Amendment rights is also one step on the road to losing your Second Amendment rights.

I have a First Amendment right to express them just as Nick Sandmann has a First Amendment right to express his.

And if a Roman Catholic bishop, as a "corporation sole," and an incorporated closely-held business like Hobby Lobby, has First Amendment religious freedom rights, then why shouldn't a sole proprietorship have First Amendment free speech rights?

The majority argued that the First Amendment protects associations of individuals as well as individual speakers, and further that the First Amendment does not allow prohibitions of speech based on the identity of the speaker.

It’s a fraud, like your belief that you have a right to free speech because of the First Amendment, or a right to be armed because of the Second Amendment.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Some of the most exciting and unsettled First Amendment issues center on whether or not the amendment covers new forms of technology, like computer code, algorithms or blockchain.

Furthermore, the Court refused to apply the proportionality standards of the Fourteenth Amendment or the free-speech standards in the First Amendment to limit Congress's ability to confer copyrights for limited terms.

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Heller and McDonald supported the individual rights model, under which the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms much as the First Amendment protects the right to free speech.

First, public officials will likely add prominent personal-account labels and disclaimers to their pages to lessen the odds of successful First Amendment lawsuits.

But the best advice is to first make sure the information is, in fact, wrong, said Nora Benavidez, a First Amendment and voting rights advocate with PEN America who wrote a for correcting friends and family.

The First Amendment is the first, after all.

The lawsuit also argues that the federal response violates the First Amendment rights of the First Unitarian Church of Portland, whose religious practice includes activism and protest in the face of injustice.

First Liberty representatives stated the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in favor of graduation speakers' First Amendment rights.

The Liberty High School Senior first talked to KXL’s Lars Larson in April about how his first amendment rights were being stepped on.

A federal judge blocked it over concerns that it violated First Amendment rights.

Again, for you to say that this case is not important on First Amendment grounds is beyond belief!

Alliance Defending Freedom is one of the most successful Supreme Court litigation firms, winning many cases that specifically deal with the First Amendment and religious freedoms, per the report.

Although it is a majority of the council that has supported this effort to explore the change in electing councilmembers, Najarian said he felt his “First Amendment rights” were violated because his opinion was not shared with the public.

At issue in disputes from California and Michigan is whether a public official’s social media activity can amount to governmental action bound by First Amendment limits on government regulation of speech.

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