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

First Novel in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: novel
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.7 words

Words in this phrase

first novel

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
  • novel can mean: Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new. 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:

628 his first novel emerged from 1× after the first novel 1× as the first novel in the 1× by his first novel shabby tiger 1× during the first novel to small 1× erdrich s first novel after her 1× first novel in 1949 1× for best first novel 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

adam bernstein 2007 1× an earlier version 1× at the same 1× audiences were able 1× but yes it 1× deviations from the 1×

Common sentence endings:

and magnifying glass 1× best first novel 1× entrance of hogwarts 1× first true novel 1× his first novel 1× interest me now 1×

Context words

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

published 6× set 4× book 2× summer 2× bradbury 2× last 2× own 2× written 2× fiction 2× wrote 2× light 2× series 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 novel:

graphic novel 13×

Just before it in the phrase index:

first ncaa first nations first nation first name first met first meal

Just after it in the phrase index:

first opportunity first oscar first period first phase first player first playoff

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

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

Same ending:

graphic novel

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "first novel" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 628 his first novel emerged from, after the first novel, published, set and book stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first floor, first lady, first round and graphic novel, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with first novel

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

Short example sentences

First novel In 1949, Bradbury and his wife were expecting their first child. (13 words)

An earlier version of this article misstated the title of Joshua Moehling’s first novel. (15 words)

The novel Zabeth by André Louis which appeared in 1969 was the first novel published in Norman. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

At the same time, Spring was developing his ambitions as a writer; his first book, Darkie and Co., a children's story, came out in 1932, followed by his first novel, Shabby Tiger, which was set in Manchester, published by William Collins, Sons in 1934. (45 words)

Information in this paragraph is extracted from André Gide: A Life in the Present by Alan Sheridan, pages 628. "His first novel emerged from Gide’s own journal, and many of the first-person narratives read more or less like journals. (41 words)

From there, first-year students are accompanied by the "Keeper of the Keys, Game and Grounds" (which was Hagrid during the first novel) to small boats, which magically sail across the lake and get them near the entrance of Hogwarts. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

Adam Bernstein (2007) calls And Let the Credit Go "his first published novel, a satire" and that book seems to be the object of Lloyd Alexander (1999) remarks on "his first novel".

Intended first novel What was later issued as a collection of stories and vignettes, Summer Morning, Summer Night, started out to be Bradbury's first true novel.

The first novel, The Amulet of Power, was set after the events of The Last Revelation, while its sequels The Lost Cult and The Man of Bronze are set after the first novel.

Also around the table are Johnston, whose graphic novel starring Charlize Theron, and Matt Coot, who is at work on his first novel and has come with his own deerstalker hat and magnifying glass.

Frankenstein, the novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is often hailed as the first novel in the science fiction genre.

Jackson County didn’t inspire his latest novel, but it’s the setting of all his fiction (Joy also wrote The Weight of This WorldWhere All Light Tends to Go, an Edgar finalist for Best First Novel).

Deviations from the novel in the series In the first novel, but not in the television series: * Urquhart never speaks directly to the reader; the character is written solely in a third-person perspective.

It was probably in this period that he wrote his first novel, Ofiara (Sacrifice); he is thought to have destroyed the manuscript of the never-published novel.

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Novel In 1946, Goldberg published her first novel, והוא האור (Hebrew: Vehu ha'or, literally: "And he is the light").

The novel Chicano by Richard Vasquez, was the first novel about Mexican Americans to be released by a major publisher (Doubleday, 1970).

The novel Zabeth by André Louis which appeared in 1969 was the first novel published in Norman.

At the same time, Spring was developing his ambitions as a writer; his first book, Darkie and Co., a children's story, came out in 1932, followed by his first novel, Shabby Tiger, which was set in Manchester, published by William Collins, Sons in 1934.

First novel In 1949, Bradbury and his wife were expecting their first child.

From there, first-year students are accompanied by the "Keeper of the Keys, Game and Grounds" (which was Hagrid during the first novel) to small boats, which magically sail across the lake and get them near the entrance of Hogwarts.

Information in this paragraph is extracted from André Gide: A Life in the Present by Alan Sheridan, pages 628. "His first novel emerged from Gide’s own journal, and many of the first-person narratives read more or less like journals.

The Antelope Wife (1998), Erdrich's first novel after her divorce from Dorris, was the first of her novels to be set outside the continuity of the previous books.

An earlier version of this article misstated the title of Joshua Moehling’s first novel.

Audiences were able to witness in live-action what they had been reading since the first novel was released in 2008.

But, yes, it is amazing that in my first novel, “The Invisible Circus,” I was already reaching for the things that interest me now.

For Harper, that first novel, and another published in the UK called “The Last King of California,” connected him with his roots.

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