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

First Debate in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: debate
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 29 words

Words in this phrase

first debate

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
  • debate can mean: To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

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

at the first debate 2× after the first debate back in 1× after the first debate tuesday night 1× after the first debate with trump 1× an earlier first debate as evidence 1× as the first debate approaches polls 1× attend the first debate and is 1× between the first debate and when 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

after the first 1× an estimated 70 1× another candidate is 1× apart from offering 1× as the first 1× as we saw 1×

Common sentence endings:

the first debate 2× alter that dynamic 1× between different topics 1× casting their votes 1× debate tuesday night 1× democratic presidential nominee 1×

Context words

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

president 5× citation 5× presidential 4× won 4× biden 4× voters 3× believed 3× nixon 3× night 3× himself 2× personal 2× states 2×

Related phrases

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

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around debate:

debate stage 13×

Just before it in the phrase index:

first class first choice first cause first black first bet first battle

Just after it in the phrase index:

first defendant first degree first down first edition first element first episode

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

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

Same ending:

presidential debate gop debate

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "first debate" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as at the first debate, after the first debate back in, president, citation and presidential stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first floor, first lady, first round and debate stage, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with first debate

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

Short example sentences

The presidential debate was the first debate in the 2020 presidentialcampaign. (11 words)

The interview aired as other Republican candidates for president took part in their first debate on Wednesday night. (18 words)

As we saw in the first debate, his actual intentions are even more problematic than his inability to express them. (20 words)

Longer example sentences

As the first debate approaches, polls of likely Republican voters nationally and of those in the early-voting states – Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada – have consistently shown Trump well ahead of his rivals at this stage of the race. (41 words)

Political observers at the time believed that Kennedy won the first debate, citation Nixon won the second citation and third debates, citation while the fourth debate, citation which was seen as the strongest performance by both men, was a draw. (40 words)

Apart from offering insight that allows for speculation regarding the potential success or failure of each candidate’s campaign, this first debate highlighted one of the key contradictions of our current climate and the American far right in general. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

To defend himself against those accusations, Roe pointed to a leaked debate memo, which advised DeSantis to mention his wife at the first debate.

By the time of the first debate, wrote Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani in a letter to the debate commission, voters in more than a dozen states will have been allowed to start casting their votes.

Now it’s the Bidenites’ turn to exploit yesterday’s Trump demand for a fourth debate, or an earlier first debate, as evidence that the president himself has cold feet.

Speaking with a panel in the post-debate coverage, Cupp echoed a discreet note given to host that called out those giving President credit for not creating another as he did at the first debate.

The presidential debate was the first debate in the 2020 presidentialcampaign.

Welker, aided by a mute button (see below) whose absence made the first debate such a disaster, was able to deftly move the debate between different topics.

An estimated 70 million viewers watched the first debate. citation It is often claimed that people who watched the debate on television overwhelmingly believed Kennedy had won, while radio listeners (a smaller audience) believed Nixon had won.

Nixon's poor appearance on television in the first debate is reflected by the fact that his mother called him immediately following the debate to ask if he was sick.

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Political observers at the time believed that Kennedy won the first debate, citation Nixon won the second citation and third debates, citation while the fourth debate, citation which was seen as the strongest performance by both men, was a draw.

Another candidate is going to have to show between the first debate and when the first votes are cast that they can alter that dynamic.

Biden and Trump teams prepare for personal attacks in first presidential debatePresident Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will face off in their first debate Tuesday night, and about 100 million people are expected to watch.

President Donald Trump and first lady walk offstage as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Dr. greet moderator Chris Wallace after the first debate Tuesday night.

The day after the first debate with Trump in Cleveland, Biden made his first appearance in Ohio on Wednesday as the Democratic presidential nominee.

After the first debate back in August, polling indicated GOP voters saw Haley among the top performers, and that momentum appeared to carry through her next appearances.

Apart from offering insight that allows for speculation regarding the potential success or failure of each candidate’s campaign, this first debate highlighted one of the key contradictions of our current climate and the American far right in general.

As the first debate approaches, polls of likely Republican voters nationally and of those in the early-voting states – Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada – have consistently shown Trump well ahead of his rivals at this stage of the race.

Pointing to his commanding lead over his rivals for the nomination, he did not attend the first debate and is not showing up for the second showdown.

Thanks to your support, I announced this morning that we had surpassed 40,000 unique donors to qualify for the RNC’s first debate.

The interview aired as other Republican candidates for president took part in their first debate on Wednesday night.

As we saw in the first debate, his actual intentions are even more problematic than his inability to express them.

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