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Example sentences for "even before"

  • Even before he answered her she knew she pleaded in vain, but she was not prepared for what followed the silence Richard was first to break.

  • I loved you with all the powers I had, even before I knew you were Petrea's child.

  • SHE sang it now to him, and the strange words fell on Arthur's ear, even before he stepped across the threshold, where he stood appalled at the unwonted spectacle which met his view.

  • Every day, I hope, Martin, till it's all over.

  • At first I understood him to say he had; but then, he seemed to wish to express that he had not.

  • Are we not honored by a connexion which repudiates us even before it is formed!

  • The noble boy must show more energy than those who have gone before him; he must quit for ever a country in which he was condemned, even before he was born.

  • Even before it is twilight my mother confineth me within the asylum.

  • Thereupon Sakra replied, 'Even before I had come to thee, Surya had known of my purpose and without doubt, it is he that hath unfolded everything unto thee!

  • But on the whole he took the part of his Elector against Maurice, who, even before this, had appeared to him lax and wavering in his support of the new faith.

  • It was some real wreckage I was looking for, and this it presently appeared that I had found when the bow wave threw aside a deeply floating fragment of what--even before we picked it up--I recognised as newly split teak.

  • She sang with grace, she knew how to impart such fervour even to these light winged passages, that, even before a partial judge, she would surely have gained her cause.

  • And this accusation is my legacy, the lightning that strikes the worthless woman, even before I die.

  • Besides, even before others, she showed how much she favoured Wegen, and he was very happy that he should be envied.

  • But it would have been more profitable to the world if He had taught for a longer time, beginning at the age of twenty, or even before.

  • Therefore, even before sin, it was necessary that the Son of God should become incarnate, in order to fulfil God's predestination.

  • He set up a terrific howl, even before he scrambled to his feet.

  • Bobby wheeled about, even before he cried out, save for that first exclamation of surprise, to look at the Rockledge shore.

  • Why, even before I met him, people piqued my curiosity about him by saying I talked like him.

  • Even before he had accepted the physician's invitation to cross his threshold, he had resolved to turn this silence to his own profit: he, whose inward boast was his stainless honor, had resolved to act a silent lie.

  • However, even before 1867 Plitt wrote it had long ago been recognized that this expression refers to the Introduction and the Conclusion of the Confession, which were written by Brueck.

  • Theologians like Luther could have appeared even before such a council in order to give bold testimony before it.

  • Even before 1549 the candidates for philosophical degrees were also pledged by oath to the Augsburg Confession.

  • Senor Colon," shouted the eager youth, even before he was near enough to be distinctly heard.

  • Even before he had opened his eyes he realized that he was in a hurrying carriage, for he could feel every sway and jolt of the thinly cushioned seat.

  • Even before he had uttered that half-articulate little sentence his captive was possessed by a sudden conviction of approaching climax.

  • It was essential that he secure his sinews of war, even before he could continue his search for Frank, or rescue her from the dangers that beset her, if she still wished for rescue.

  • It stopped me even before I had a chance to get as far as my own desk.

  • She had heard the sounds, too, even before we had, and for an instant stood with every muscle tense.

  • X Even before he was fully awake he had a vague idea that something unusual had occurred while he slept.

  • Even before he reached the house, the task had become too difficult for him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "even before" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    autonomous republic; divine names; even because; even during; even for; even from; even greater; even know; even less; even number; even they; even though; even today; even until; even unto the end; even voice; even years; evening dress; evening paper; evening parties; fair cousin; false claim; human brotherhood; moral life; pioneer days; well shown