(n.) A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(2) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
(3) The story and the characters of Girl Online are mine.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella with her debut book ‘Girl Online’.
(4) As a result of a psychopathological total systems analysis of the debut of exogenously aggravated and nonaggravated paranoid schizophrenia the authors have revealed a significant interrelationship allowing the characterization of both general regularities of the "background" effect and individual characteristics secondary to a concrete nature of exogenous impact.
(5) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
(6) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
(7) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(8) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
(9) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
(10) Immediately upon his election, Ryan debuted a new Twitter handle, @SpeakerRyan, with the message: “Let’s do this.” Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) Let's do this.
(11) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
(12) "It was a great debut for Christian," said the Spurs manager.
(13) Leroy Sané, a substitute, slotted in seamlessly on his debut.
(14) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
(15) Photograph: Redferns Maurice made his Broadway debut in 1875 in Pique.
(16) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.
(17) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
(18) This season’s other much awaited debut will be Natalia Osipova , dancing her first Kitri with the Royal later this month.
(19) It was a good, fair deal, and three days after signing, on 29 October 1960, Clay made his debut as a pro and defeated in six one-sided rounds Tunney Hunsaker, a former chief police officer, in Louisville’s packed Freedom Hall.
(20) Deft and perceptive, with the ability to contribute his share of goals, Eriksen made his Eredivisie debut at 17 and received his first senior cap at 18, making him the country's youngest international since Michael Laudrup.
Debutante
Definition:
() A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before the public.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(2) The coup of signing the former world footballer of the year follows the arrival of Spain’s David Villa as the first designated player for Orlando’s fellow MLS debutantes, New York City FC, last month.
(3) Your new novel, Winter Games , tells the story of a debutante in 1930s Munich and was partly based on the experiences of your grandmother.
(4) There are growing signs, however, that float fatigue has set in after several market debutantes tumbled in value.
(5) I expected not to hear back from anybody but, in fact, once I invoked Williams' name, owners of country piles started flinging their ghosts at me as if they were their debutante daughters.
(6) She first met Andrew Parker Bowles at her “coming out” party as a debutante in 1965.
(7) David, a debutante, adventurer and lover of the Mediterranean sunshine, had an influence with her articles and books, describing dishes with aubergines, courgettes and other exotica that were all but unavailable in northern Europe in the 1950s and 60s.
(8) For Waugh, the club consisted of “epileptic royalty from their villas of exile; uncouth peers from crumbling country seats; smooth young men of uncertain tastes from embassies and legations; illiterate lairds from wet granite hovels in the Highlands; ambitious young barristers and Conservative candidates torn from the London season and the indelicate advances of debutantes; all that was most sonorous of name and title”.
(9) He would occasionally consort with debutantes and the whole triple-barrel moniker brigade, even though he found their chosen lifestyles utterly facile.
(10) Michael Gove, the Tory chief whip, described her as the “most impressive debutante” in the debate, before going on to warn of the perils of a Labour-SNP vote.
(11) And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that?
(12) Forty years ago, the Queen wore miniskirts, debutantes were It girls, and teenagers shopped at Jaeger.
(13) Downton Abbey was last seen on British screens on Christmas Day, when a special episode was broadcast showing the family visiting London for debutante Lady Rose's coming out.
(14) The small-press surprises and unknown debutantes that have been a fixture of recent years are notably absent – though notable too is the prize's first crowd-funded long-listee, eco-activist Paul Kingsnorth's Old English tale of resistance to the Norman invasion.
(15) She came out as a debutante in 1938 at a ball given by her doting father at the Mitfords' London house, and enjoyed the last real season before the second world war.
(16) The AA, which floated in June, priced its shares at 250p and, unlike other debutantes such as Saga and AO world whose shares have sunk below their offer price, closed last week at 291.5p.
(17) There is another high-profile debutante in the women's race, as reigning Olympic and world 10,000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba runs her first marathon.
(18) After leaving Queen’s Gate school with a single O-level in kennel hygiene, she went on to become the most sought-after debutante of her generation.
(19) She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
(20) In the interwar period, gin would reach the height of sophistication when it was sloshed about with flair by debutantes and bright young things .