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

First Woman in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: first
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 32.2 words

Words in this phrase

first woman

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
  • woman can mean: An adult female human. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

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

and the first woman to serve 2× was the first woman to serve 2× also the first woman to be 1× american and first woman to serve 1× and the first woman the first 1× and the first woman to become 1× and the first woman to preside 1× and the first woman to receive 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

as the first 1× berkeley journalism names 1× ellen bree burns 1× harris is vying 1× harris whose mother 1× hyde smith who 1×

Common sentence endings:

an academic degree 1× annual ves awards 1× as a coach 1× broken historical barriers 1× chair the fed 1× commander in chief 1×

Context words

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

american 9× serve 7× president 6× african 6× elected 6× senate 6× black 5× office 5× become 5× district 5× south 4× asian 4×

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 first:

first quarter 17× first two 10× first black 9× first half 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

first wife first wave first volume first visit first two first try

Just after it in the phrase index:

fiscal deficit fiscal policy fiscal year fish stocks fisher scientific fishing boats

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

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

Same ending:

wonder woman pregnant woman elderly woman black woman county woman young woman

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "first woman" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 32.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and the first woman to serve, was the first woman to serve, american, serve and president stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first floor, first lady, first round, first quarter, first two and first black, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with first woman

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

Short example sentences

Lauren Underwood became the first woman and the first Black woman to represent her Illinois district. (16 words)

Berkeley Journalism names new dean. is the first woman of color — and first woman — to lead the school. (18 words)

If she wins, Harris would be the first woman, first Black woman and first person of south Asian descent to hold the top federal office. (25 words)

Longer example sentences

She was also the first African-American woman to serve on the federal judiciary (1966), as well as the first African-American and the first woman to become Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1982). (44 words)

Harris is vying to become the first woman, first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to reach the Oval Office, four years after she broke the same barriers in national office by becoming Biden’s second in command. (41 words)

Hyde-Smith, who is endorsed by President Donald Trump, is the first woman to represent Mississippi in either chamber of Congress, and after being appointed is trying to become the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from the state. (41 words)

Example sentences (20)

As the first woman, the first Black woman, and the first South Asian woman to hold the office of Vice President, you have not only broken historical barriers.

She attained fame as the first African-American woman appointed as a United States Federal judge, the first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate and the first woman to serve as Manhattan borough president.

Harris is vying to become the first woman, first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to reach the Oval Office, four years after she broke the same barriers in national office by becoming Biden’s second in command.

If she wins, Harris would be the first woman, first Black woman and first person of south Asian descent to hold the top federal office.

She was also the first African-American woman to serve on the federal judiciary (1966), as well as the first African-American and the first woman to become Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1982).

And to come from that in her lifetime to come see the first woman vice president, and first woman vice president of color,” said Johnson, a Desert Storm veteran.

Lyon coach Sonia Bompastor, the first woman to win the Women’s Champions League as a player and coach, was trying to become the first woman to win two titles as a coach.

Berkeley Journalism names new dean. is the first woman of color — and first woman — to lead the school.

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Harris, whose mother and father emigrated from India and Jamaica, respectively, was the first woman to serve as San Francisco’s district attorney and the first woman to serve as California’s attorney general.

If confirmed by the Senate, Yellen would be the first woman to serve as treasury secretary, after breaking ground as the first woman to chair the Fed.

If elected, I will be the first Hispanic-American woman to represent IL in the US Congress as well as the first woman to represent this district.

The fellowship program honors her as the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person, and still the only woman, to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.

Ellen Bree Burns, a prominent judge who was the first woman to serve on Connecticut’s major trial court and the first woman to preside in a federal court in the state, died on Monday in New Haven.

She was also the first woman to be presented with the Harold Lloyd Award from the Advanced Imaging Society, and the first woman to receive the Visionary Award at the 15th Annual VES Awards.

She went on to become a United States Senator in 2016, is the second African American woman in history to be elected to the Senate, and the first African American and first woman to serve as Attorney General of California.

Hyde-Smith, who is endorsed by President Donald Trump, is the first woman to represent Mississippi in either chamber of Congress, and after being appointed is trying to become the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from the state.

Lauren Underwood became the first woman and the first Black woman to represent her Illinois district.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who in 2012 became the first woman elected to the Senate from Massachusetts, is now the first woman from Massachusetts to be reelected to the Senate.

Women at the university The first woman to study in Lund was Hildegard Björck (spring of 1880) who had previously studied in Uppsala and had there been the first Swedish woman ever to get an academic degree.

When elected, she will be the first President from Generation X, and the first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to hold the office of Commander-in-Chief.

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