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Example sentences for "prematurely"

Lexicographically close words:
preluded; preludes; preluding; prelusive; premature; premaxilla; premaxillae; premaxillaries; premaxillary; premeditated
  1. She told them, had he not prematurely died, that she was going to be married to John Henderson.

  2. Think of the rich intelligences whose brightness has prematurely faded and died away in the darkness of alcoholic night!

  3. He was now prematurely aged by his terrible experiences, and though his eye was still bright and his frame alert, care and privation had whitened his hair, exposure had darkened his skin and left its wrinkled impress on his forehead.

  4. Its conclusion was prematurely greeted as the end of a period of economic strife between the two halves of the monarchy and as a pledge of a decade of peaceful development.

  5. To Bee, so prematurely introduced into the midst of those jars and individual strivings of will and fancy, it seemed as if everything might be made so easy in life by this simple method.

  6. A child of fifteen with the assurance of a man of the world is a thing against all nature; at twenty-five he will be prematurely old, and his precocious knowledge only unfits him for the genuine study on which all solid ability must rest.

  7. My husband is a young man, prematurely old; why don't you marry some young-hearted graybeard in the Chamber of Peers?

  8. But it may be said prematurely here that, even when he is wrong as to his facts or his sweeping generalisations, one is inclined to forgive him on account of the quaint gracefulness and point of his style.

  9. These are two short extracts:-- "The line of my noble-hearted brother has indeed been prematurely cut off.

  10. It was not very long ere he was recalled to the capital and reinstated in office; but he had been delicate all his life and had grown prematurely old, and was thus unable to resist a severe illness which came upon him.

  11. It is a reaching out after the little children of poverty and want--the hapless little ones who have been hurled prematurely against the life-wrecking problems of existence.

  12. She had beautiful white teeth, and was not prematurely aged, only very sun-burnt and shabby, her black stuff dress blue with age and mended in many places, her partially bare feet thrust in sabots.

  13. Tell me not the price of any article I am eating, neither inquire of me prematurely what I will have for my dinner.

  14. Finally, patients who leave the bed too soon or indulge prematurely in their ordinary diet are liable to a relapse, perhaps fatally, into the original disease.

  15. A crust torn off prematurely should never be used, {480} and the same may be said of secondary crusts--i.

  16. According to Kaposi, women recently delivered prematurely or who have lately suffered from an abortion succumb more often than others of their sex.

  17. She was, as I learned later, about thirty, but her hair had turned prematurely gray, almost white.

  18. I judged her hair was prematurely grayed, for her face was young and attractive.

  19. The slanting rays of light from the high window streamed down on his prematurely gray hair, and showed us the strange yellow pallor of his complexion, and the youthful symmetry of his hands, nimbly occupied with their work.

  20. But for his prematurely gray hair and the strange yellow pallor of his complexion, I doubt if I should have recognized him again.

  21. But he was then--in 1873--a prematurely old man, worn out and saddened by neglect and a sense of literary failure.

  22. I was only seventeen, and prematurely miserable as I was become, still there remained something in me of the spirit of youth, which pants after new scenes, new companions, and new excitements.

  23. We cannot live without bread upon bare reputation, or on the prospect of having tombstones put over our bones, prematurely hurried to the grave by hunger, when they shall be as insensible to praise as the stones themselves.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prematurely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    betimes; early; hastily; impulsively