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

First Wave in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: wave
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 17
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 29.3 words

Words in this phrase

first wave

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
  • wave can mean: To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

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

a prolonged first wave of the 1× after the first wave of disruptions 1× called the first wave of influenza 1× during the first wave in march 1× during the first wave of infections 1× faced the first wave remain 1× from the first wave of protests 1× in the first wave a situation 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

the first wave 2× after the first 1× around 9 000 1× europe s second 1× even though there 1× from the czech 1×

Common sentence endings:

a second wave 2× the second wave 2× a first wave 1× a light ray 1× a mounting backlash 1× associated with women 1×

Context words

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

though 3× attack 3× covid 3× infections 3× early 3× march 3× may 3× world 3× remain 2× pandemic 2× situation 2× disruptions 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 wave:

plane wave 9× wave equation 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

first volume first visit first two first try first trip first trick

Just after it in the phrase index:

first wife first woman fiscal deficit fiscal policy fiscal year fish stocks

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

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

Same ending:

shock wave plane wave standing wave tropical wave

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "first wave" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a prolonged first wave of the, after the first wave of disruptions, though, attack and covid stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first floor, first lady, first round, plane wave and wave equation, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with first wave

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

Short example sentences

That first wave bends, then meets the wave behind it, deviating it like a light ray. (16 words)

The first wave of the project will run 24 pages, though Bunn is already planning a second wave. (18 words)

Ours were hearing about a second wave at the expense of a hungry populace who had not survived a first wave. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

Around 9,000 people more than normal died during the first wave of infections between early March and early May, while more than 6,000 extra fatalities have been reported since the start of the second wave mid-September. (39 words)

The research on 1918 has eerie similarities to the current crisis, as many parts of the world appear to be entering a second wave of Covid-19, or remain in a prolonged first wave of the virus. (37 words)

While the first wave of the early 20th century was centered on gaining suffrage and overturning de jure inequalities, the second wave was focused on changing cultural and social norms and de facto inequalities associated with women. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

Even though there are encouraging signs that the protestors have learned from the first wave of protests, most notably from the Egyptian and Syrian experiences, the same structural issues that faced the first wave, remain.

The first wave was to be the primary attack, while the second wave was to attack carriers as its first objective and cruisers as its second, with battleships as the third target.

The survivors of the first wave were unable to provide effective covering fire, and in places the fresh landing troops suffered casualty rates as high as those of the first wave.

That first wave bends, then meets the wave behind it, deviating it like a light ray.

The president also mentioned the pandemic, noting that he analyzes the situation very carefully both in the first wave and in the second wave.

After the first wave of disruptions from China, the second wave of supply chain disruptions emerged from neighboring South Korea and Japan, when Covid-19 spread its wings to these countries.

Around 9,000 people more than normal died during the first wave of infections between early March and early May, while more than 6,000 extra fatalities have been reported since the start of the second wave mid-September.

Europe’s second wave: Several countries in Europe are reporting more daily covid-19 cases than during the first wave in March, though the higher numbers may be due to more people being tested.

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From the Czech Republic and Germany to the Indian state of Kerala, governments that dealt decisively with the first wave of the coronavirus are drowning in the second wave.

Germany, which was praised for its handling of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring, entered a strict lockdown on Wednesday as infections and deaths soar in a second wave.

If the Kansas outbreak could be called the first wave of influenza in this country then the second wave didn't attack until nearly a half year later.

Ours were hearing about a second wave at the expense of a hungry populace who had not survived a first wave.

The first wave of the project will run 24 pages, though Bunn is already planning a second wave.

There may be tighter restrictions being introduced now but it comes as a time when the second wave has already far outpaced the first wave of infections.

The research on 1918 has eerie similarities to the current crisis, as many parts of the world appear to be entering a second wave of Covid-19, or remain in a prolonged first wave of the virus.

We are not going to have a “second wave” — our continuing “first wave” is just going to keep getting worse and worse.

Like the first wave of globalization that ended ignominiously between World War I and the Great Depression, the current wave has generated a mounting backlash.

On March 11, the hillside of parish poppies, mile marker 83.4 on Highway 78, botanist Kate Harper said, "The second big wave of flowers has begun, while the first wave blooms still linger.

While the first wave of the early 20th century was centered on gaining suffrage and overturning de jure inequalities, the second wave was focused on changing cultural and social norms and de facto inequalities associated with women.

Ryan said the world was experiencing a “second peak in the first wave” — a situation in which the virus hasn’t been suppressed enough to quell transmission to end the first one.

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