in-a-sentence.com, use previously in a sentence

Use previously in a sentence

Sentences starting with previously

Previously he had talked a great deal, grew excited when he talked, and seldom listened; now he was seldom carried away in conversation and knew how to listen so that people readily told him their most intimate secrets. [2]
Previously Jasmine had never shown him any marked preference; and when, at first, he met her in town on her return from Wales he was no more than watchfully courteous and admiring. [11]
Previously Frank's name had scarcely been spoken to her. [11]
Previously the supposition had been that it emptied into the Atlantic, or Sea of Virginia. [5]
Previously there was an undercurrent of self-consciousness; it was all gone now. [11]

Sentences ending with previously

Papias was somewhat uneasy for he was alarmed at the thought that Pollux might now betray how small a share his master had in his last works--which had brought him higher praise than all he had done previously. [10]
The prisoner said that the troops that had entered Forminsk that day were the vanguard of the whole army, that Napoleon was there and the whole army had left Moscow four days previously. [2]
The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously. [2]
In this work he had followed the method which had always been used by decipherers previously. [5]
All that was gracious, all that was attractive in the old palace had vanished at Sabina's visit, and even Hadrian himself was a different man to what he had been a few days previously. [10]
The doctor who came to see her that day ordered her to continue the powders he had prescribed a fortnight previously. [2]
Mr. Ingleby gives another series of seven eases which occurred to a practitioner in 1836, the first of which was also attributed to his having opened several erysipelatous abscesses a short time previously. [3]

Short sentences using previously

Even more previously, sometimes. [5]

More example sentences with the word previously in them

During Paaker's interview with the poet, the dwarf Nemu had chatted to the porter, and had learned from him all that had previously occurred. [10]
The Queen's meeting with her husband, which she had previously reported, had been magnificent. [10]
The Frenchman's chatter which had previously amused Pierre now repelled him. [2]
After dinner they went to drink coffee in Napoleon's study, which four days previously had been that of the Emperor Alexander. [2]
The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. [1]
In the same way the best of the statues were gone, with which a few centuries previously the art-loving Lagides had decorated this residence--besides which they had another, still larger, on the Bruchiom. [10]
The soft-hearted tyrant was really sorry for the faithful old servant he had bought a generation since for the home to which he had brought his fair young wife, and he began to speak kindly to her, as he had previously done to the birds. [10]
Her lady-in-waiting, Zoe, was reading to her, not this time from a Greek philosopher but from a Greek translation of the Hebrew Psalms: a discussion as to their poetic merit having arisen a few days previously at the supper-table. [10]
This steely calm was even more frightening than the ferocity which had previously been in his captor's face. [11]
Mr. Flint looked up from his desk, and his face, previously bereft of illumination, lighted when he saw his daughter. [9]
Resenting therefore the tone he had assumed, I took occasion not only to reiterate my previously expressed opinion somewhat more aggressively, but also went on to insinuate that he was himself distinctly lacking in any real appreciation of what was excellent. [4]
He was listening to the general's report--which consisted chiefly of a criticism of the position at Tsarevo-Zaymishche--as he had listened to Denisov, and seven years previously had listened to the discussion at the Austerlitz council of war. [2]
Ermolov had been to see Bennigsen a few days previously and had entreated him to use his influence with the commander in chief to induce him to take the offensive. [2]
The soldiers fired three volleys of musketry--the wailing being previously silenced to permit of the guns being heard. [5]
She did not think of applying submission and self-abnegation to her own life, for she was accustomed to seek other joys, but she understood and loved in another those previously incomprehensible virtues. [2]
He believes that the power of stridulation in the Clythra has not been previously observed. [1]
When Verus entered the palace Hadrian had returned thither but a few minutes previously from the city. [10]
It was arranged the night previously that it would be best to choke them, in case the report of the arms might be heard from the road, and if they were missed they never would be found. [5]
Her presence in the house has previously brought down the pride and broken the heart of Appelles' poor old mother; and her life is a failure. [5]
We drove to the Grand Duke Michael's, a mile away, in response to his invitation, previously given. [5]
In April of the former year, he went to live with Mr. Emerson, but had been on intimate terms with him previously to that time. [6]
A gentleman of the court, to whom the Duke's Daughter had previously presented Lempriere, gaily agreed to act as second, and gallantly attended the lord of Rozel in his adventurous enterprise. [11]
It so happened that while I was there a gentleman came in whom I had previously met,--my namesake, Mr. Holmes, the Queen's librarian at Windsor Castle. [6]
We must suppose that the rhythms and cadences of oratory are derived from previously developed musical powers. [1]
It could require that several of its members be entered upon the list of permitted speakers previously to the opening of a sitting; and as there is no time-limit, further delays could thus be accomplished. [5]
He always insisted that he had previously written other articles which in his eyes certainly were just as good as they, if not better. [4]
I have previously stated, that when his fatal attack came on, his pockets were found filled with old letters from the woman to whom he was attached. [14]
Then she thought she perceived that a bluish tinge had overspread his bloated features, and she broke into the deep, agonized, weeping which, a few hours previously had touched the architect's heart. [10]
Talib had previously seen the youth by his father's side; he recognized him and asked how long he had been there, and if he had come direct from the mountain. [10]
I had previously seen the palms carried in by servants in great baskets. [4]
Pollux at first sat a while on a bench in the garden, but soon sprang up and paced with long steps the path he had previously trodden with Arsinoe. [10]
Others had previously reproached him, as the King had just done, with having, in the Demeter, become faithless to his artistic past. [10]
Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west, slaying their fellows. [2]
Not that the real instruction would be done there, for it wouldn't; it would be previously done privately, and merely repeated there. [5]
Each said the public talk and the newspaper reports had not so biased his mind but that sworn testimony would overthrow his previously formed opinions and enable him to render a verdict without prejudice and in accordance with the facts. [5]
For some time previously, the company's horses had been frequently stolen, and the coaches delayed, by gangs of outlaws, who were wont to laugh at the idea of any man's having the temerity to resent such outrages. [5]
A little while previously to the capture of Feringhea's family, the British officer had captured Feringhea's foster-brother, leader of a gang of ten, and had tried the eleven and condemned them to be hanged. [5]
A few days previously Pierre had decided to go to Petersburg on the Friday. [2]
Similar views appeared previously in the 'Australasian,' July 13, 1867. [1]
People who had previously engaged tables in the one sole eating-house were able to put in their time very satisfactorily; the other thousand went hungry. [5]
In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch. [5]
If he has previously appeared before the public, his reputation has not crossed the Atlantic. [6]
In practical matters Pierre unexpectedly felt within himself a center of gravity he had previously lacked. [2]
Wherefore even the owners and captains of boats furnished exclusively with outsiders, and previously considered to be wholly independent of the association and free to comfort themselves with brag and laughter, began to feel pretty uncomfortable. [5]
The sermon was only a more formal declaration of views respecting the Lord's Supper, which he had previously made known in a conference with some of the most active members of his church. [6]
In this state of things it was natural that all which had been previously gathered by the few who had seen or known anything of him should be worked over again. [6]
But America, youngest of the nations, was born when modern science was gathering the momentum which since has enabled it to overcome, with a bewildering rapidity, many evils previously held by superstition to be ineradicable. [9]
At the risk of repeating something which I have previously said, I will copy out parts of a letter which I wrote at the time. [14]
All the elements of life that previously had been realities, trivial yet fundamental, her work, her home, her intercourse with the family, became fantastic. [9]
She had previously noticed an old priest, whose countenance bore the impress of genuine kindness of heart. [10]
The bewildered reader must not forget that passage of arms, previously mentioned, between Plato and Diogenes. [6]
They, those strange men he had not previously known, stood out clearly and sharply from everyone else. [2]
It seems to me, I said, that the great additions which have been made by realism to the territory of literature consist largely in swampy, malarious, ill-smelling patches of soil which had previously been left to reptiles and vermin. [6]
If elected, he may not maintain all or even any of his positions previously taken; but he will be sure to do whatever the party exigency for the time being may require; and that is precisely what you want. [7]
It was a long time since they had been here, and a few weeks previously the "Honourables" had had the pillory moved from the other side of the Town Hall to this spot. [10]
The demands of life, which had seemed to her annihilated by her father's death, all at once rose before her with a new, previously unknown force and took possession of her. [2]
Popes, kings, and knights incited the peoples to free the Holy Land; but the people did not go, for the unknown cause which had previously impelled them to go no longer existed. [2]
I had previously informed him of his mistake about the distance from Allerheiligen to Oppenau, and had also informed the Ordnance Depart of the German government of the same error in the imperial maps. [5]
Neither the long incubation of hydrophobia, nor the protecting power of vaccination, would ever have been admitted, if the results of observation in these affections had been rejected as contradictory to the previously ascertained laws of contagion. [3]
Prince Andrew came in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself of permission previously given him by Kutuzov to be present at the council, he remained in the room. [2]
She felt as if she were shivering with a sudden chill, and for a long time she could not recover the loving warmth with which she had previously treated him. [10]
It was as if a light had been kindled in a carved and painted lantern and the intricate, skillful, artistic work on its sides, that previously seemed dark, coarse, and meaningless, was suddenly shown up in unexpected and striking beauty. [2]
Day before yesterday I saw our newest cub set, perfectly space and perfectly justify 2,150 ems of solid nonpareil in an hour and distribute the like amount in the same hour--and six hours previously he had never seen the machine or its keyboard. [5]
The conclusion of his survey was, that he thought it a puzzling head; if he had known nothing previously of the original's character; he could not have read it in his features. [14]
He employed all his ability and strength to do the best he could for himself and his army, as he had done previously and as he did subsequently in 1813. [2]
The hunter concealed himself and imitated the turkey-call by sucking the air through the leg-bone of a turkey which had previously answered a call like that and lived only just long enough to regret it. [5]
Tradition says that here the Saviour was confined just previously to the crucifixion. [5]
And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white light without shadows, without perspective, without distinction of outline. [2]
A week previously he had as good as admitted to himself that he believed Luigi had possessed such a knife, and that he still possessed it notwithstanding his pretense that it had been stolen. [5]
The same evening he attended a woman in labor without previously changing his clothes; this patient died. [3]
Glaukias, the sculptor, had previously seen the Egyptian on the bridge, where he had detained those who were returning home from the city of the dead. [10]
But if I had previously overheated my imagination by drinking too much pestilential literary hot Scotch, I should have suffered disappointment and sorrow. [5]
His brother William had previously begun the study of Divinity, but found his mind beset with doubts and difficulties, and had taken to the profession of Law. [6]
The horses that had previously been invisible could now be seen to their very tails, and a watery light showed itself through the bare branches. [2]
He had previously had leisure only to provide for the wounded man, cleanse himself from blood, change his dress, bid Queen Mary farewell, and bandage the hurt afresh. [10]
I had previously had but one sensation like the shock of that departure, and that was the gaspy shock that took my breath away the first time that I was discharged from the summit of a toboggan slide. [5]
This great, pure grief had come just at the right time, flowing, like oil upon the storm-lashed waves, over hatred, resentment, and all the passionate emotions by which she had previously been driven to the verge of despair. [10]
Besides this the general opinion of all who had known him previously was that he had greatly improved during these last five years, having softened and grown more manly, lost his former affectation, pride, and contemptuous irony, and acquired the serenity that comes with years. [2]
There was a general feeling that a new writer had suddenly appeared, with a wit and wisdom peculiarly his own, precisely like which nothing had previously existed in our literature. [4]
This needs no garment; its symbol is nudity; he discarded the waist-cloth which he had previously worn. [5]
We must account for the colours of the former in the same general manner, as in the cases previously discussed in this chapter. [1]
This was the first indication of the necessity of deviating from what had previously seemed the most natural course--a direct retreat on Nizhni-Novgorod. [2]
Over the whole field, previously so gaily beautiful with the glitter of bayonets and cloudlets of smoke in the morning sun, there now spread a mist of damp and smoke and a strange acid smell of saltpeter and blood. [2]
Nevertheless, only a few months previously he would not have ventured to think of the adoption of his favorite. [10]
One George of England, noted for his frugal table and his quarrelsome disposition, who had previously fought with France, began to call the Man names. [9]
In a quiet, easy tone he then referred to what had been previously said in the debate. [11]
They had known each other previously in Petersburg, but had become more intimate when Prince Andrew was in Vienna with Kutuzov. [2]
He had determined during the coming winter to learn to ride the wheel, and we then and there planned to take a bicycle trip during the following summer, as we had previously made excursions together on horseback. [4]
She opened the door and the bright daylight in that previously darkened room startled her. [2]
If in the descriptions given by historians, especially French ones, we find their wars and battles carried out in accordance with previously formed plans, the only conclusion to be drawn is that those descriptions are false. [2]
Seleukus had previously delivered to his wife Caesar's command that she should appear in the Amphitheater with the other noble dames of the city. [10]
The changed or changing conditions in the region traversed renders the information previously furnished out of date and even misleading. [4]
I had previously changed all my clothes, and had no garment on which had been in a puerperal room. [3]
Cauchon had previously caused a hole to be bored through the wall; and he stood with his ear to that hole and heard all. [5]
He had previously called it a policy of retaliation; so that now he was very near the truth. [11]
She reconciles it by persuasion, and by giving it things which she had previously told me she wouldn't give it. [5]
She reconciles it by persuasion, and by giving it things which she had previously told it she wouldn't give it. [5]
There was much buzzing and preparation for a long time previously, and it culminated in a wild excitement at the appointed time. [5]
I proceeded to burn all useless papers; and sure enough, from a batch of Adler's, not previously examined with thoroughness, out dropped that long-desired scrap! [5]
The huge, endless bivouac that had previously resounded with the crackling of campfires and the voices of many men had grown quiet, the red campfires were growing paler and dying down. [2]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word previously in a sentence? How do you use previously in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word previously? It contains example sentences with the word previously, a sentence example for previously, and previously in sample sentence.