Winning that award raised the company into the first class of global competitors.

After years of training, she finally became one of the first class athletes representing the country.

The first classes sold out within hours, leaving many passengers disappointed.

The sergeants first class coordinated the training exercise with remarkable professionalism.

The sergeant first class led the squad through the night training exercise with calm authority.

The private first class took extra night shifts to ensure his squad was ready for the inspection.

He made his debut in a first class match for the county team last summer.

After years of activism, members of the community are finally recognized as first-class citizens.

In this language, functions are a first-class value that can be passed and returned like any other data.

In many modern programming languages, a function is treated as a first-class object that can be created at run time, passed as a parameter, returned from other functions, or assigned to variables.