Synonyms

1. antecedently

Sentence Examples

1. It had previously been indistinguishable through the heavy veils of mist, but now he saw it, smoke was billowing all around.
2. He saw a small pack of wolves headed for the ford but not the large number he had noted previously.
3. There was some initial constraint, but gradually the atmosphere around the firesite became more congenial than it had been previously.
4. Suffolk saw her lack of words as an improvement on the tirades she had previously thrown at him.
5. Towards the end, when Angela was bankrupt and I struggled with half a dozen mortgaged properties, Celestino lost Mayfair and Park Lane to Bill and won a new friend, the two men forming a bond where previously existed common civility.
6. Kandi XXOO Anne set the note down and opened the previously empty fridge.
7. More likely she had flattened herself against the side of the building next to one of the windows, or was hiding in a closet in another room, ear pressed against a peephole she had previously drilled into the meeting chambers.
8. Although Einstein is viewed as a radical thinker, who shook up the physics world, his theories were securely based on the work previously done by others.
9. Yet there was no use in revisiting previously trodden ground.
10. Then I speculated she currently attended the college or previously went to school with one of my siblings.