How to Use first-person in a Sentence

first-person

adjective
  • One of the best things a first-person action game can have is a great kick.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
  • How much of that is first-person accounts and how much of it is sourced?
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Mighty Doom Doom is a first-person shooter first and foremost.
    Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
  • In between the longer third-person chapters are short sections in the first-person.
    Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • By ninth grade his passion turned to first-person shooter video games like Quake 2.
    Michael Del Castillo, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In 1993, id released Doom, a first-person shooter about a husky space marine battling demons on the moons of Mars and in Hell.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Videos about first-person experiences got the most likes and views.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Not all of these first-person works are good, but more of them means that some will be good, even fascinating.
    Mae Ngai, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2023
  • But these days, the musician is all-in on the world’s biggest first-person shooter, Call of Duty.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Austin’s video, which has since gone viral, shows a first-person perspective of his brief battle with the shark.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
  • There’s been so much conversation about the uniqueness of the first-person perspective of the film.
    Essence, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The scenes in The Zone of Interest, showing her hiding apples in the mud, come from her first-person accounts.
    Livia Paccariè, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
  • That pairs well with the game’s first-person shooter elements.
    Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The game has been compared to BioShock, the wildly popular first-person shooter launched in 2007.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The most controversial aspect of the film is Ross' choice to shoot it from a first-person point of view with a 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
    Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
  • His first-person account is presented in color while Strauss’ version of the man is shot in black and white.
    Joey Morona, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • They can be mapped to replace face buttons or the L3 and R3 buttons, which are helpful in first-person shooters.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
  • Ukraine deployed first-person view, or FPV drones, in its attack on the Russian airfields.
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 8 June 2025
  • A lot of video games like 'Silent Hill,' 'Resident Evil,' any of those classic first-person shooters.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 June 2025
  • Though these same students loved to write first-person narratives in the second-person point of view.
    Hazlitt, 11 June 2025
  • This is the first novel by the poet and translator to be set in the United States, in the region where Novey grew up, and the first with first-person narration.
    Jeffrey Ann Goudie, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Employing first-person sources can re-humanize our study of the past.
    Hans Zeiger, National Review, 4 June 2023
  • This latest attack involved dozens of small, first-person view drones.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2025
  • The film is a raw, first-person account of the 2014 war in Gaza, when the filmmaker joined an ambulance crew to document the toll of the conflict on civilians.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Prologue was first announced in 2019 with a cryptic trailer that showed a first-person view of a storm crashing through a dark forest.
    Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Expect to see intense crashes on the racetrack, including some scenes shown from a first-person point of view.
    Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Forgiveness is, as much as vengeance, a concept that can be applied only from within the first-person point of view.
    Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Some social media posts and first-person accounts of the flooding were censored.
    Li Yuan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The Ukrainians released a taunting video, in which first-person views of the drones careering into the planes were set to a pulsing techno soundtrack.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • This morning, Electronic Arts revealed the first official look at Battlefield 6, the latest entry in their long-running first-person shooter series.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025

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