How to Use safety first in a Sentence

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  • This will put their safety first.
    — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Many others applauded the boys for thinking of their safety first.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • They were given bikes and helmets — safety first — for the holidays.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 19 Dec. 2025
  • There is the temptation, because of his father’s pedigree, to think of him as a safety first.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
  • New Yorkers deserve a justice system that puts their safety first.
    — Dan Gooding gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The job of flight attendants is safety first and later to serve beverages or bring a blanket.
    — Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Even if the practical problem still needs work, the relationship itself is brought back to safety first.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Enforce your rules, hold offenders accountable, and put athlete safety first.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 16 July 2026
  • The time is now for Maryland to truly put road safety first above all and authorize fully autonomous vehicles.
    — John Seng, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Absent from the Defend the 612 training was any instruction to put one’s personal safety first.
    — Christina Buttons, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
  • If safety first still matters, the state should not delay an incremental advance that will safeguard pedestrians, bicyclists and other motorists.
    — John Seng, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Illinois has an opportunity to lead not by rushing adoption, but by insisting on accountability, transparency and proven safety first.
    — Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The teacher’s union, the United Federation of Teachers, advised its members to be cautious and put their safety first when deciding whether to report to work.
    — Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • People will have to put their safety first, even if their government isn’t, said Wisdom Cole, NAACP senior national director of advocacy.
    — Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The National Air Traffic Controllers Association and pilots’ groups have emphasized safety first, warning that the risk envelope tightens as fatigue spreads.
    — Imran Khalid, Boston Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In 2021, Amodei, along with his sister and cofounder Daniela Amodei and a dozen other ex-OpenAI employees started Anthropic with a mission to put safety first.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But international luxury groups headquartered in Paris, Milan and Geneva are watching a very different media cycle, one dominated by missile strikes and airport closures — and the instinct has been safety first, with some keeping stores shuttered well after local companies reopened.
    — Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • What’s important to remember, according to Harteveldt, of Atmosphere Research Group, is that when the FAA tells an airline that a technology issue poses a safety issue, the airline puts safety first and complies with the FAA’s request to ground flights.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025

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