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Example sentences for "shortly before"

  • Shortly before my leaving Brunswick I had had a case made more worthy of the splendid Violin I had brought from Russia, i.

  • As shortly before I had heard from a member of the Cassel orchestra who passed through Gandersheim much of the magnificence of the court theatre there and of the love of art of the elector William II.

  • This brave general met his death at the siege of Neuhausel, as, shortly before, the no less valiant Dampierre had fallen before Presburg.

  • Shortly before, the Czar of Moscow had sent ambassadors to congratulate him, to renew his alliance, and even to offer him troops.

  • I happened to see him on our retreat, shortly before we arrived at the blockhouse.

  • Shortly before daylight, when we were within about six miles of Murfreesboro, we came to the worst break in the track we had yet encountered.

  • Shortly before this, and soon after the christening of Philip Prosper described above, an equally fatal catastrophe had fallen upon Philip on the Portuguese {464} frontier.

  • Shortly before dark, we crossed the small river of Chickamauga, and two miles further on came to a halt.

  • Shortly before daylight, and when we were some three or four miles from Crab Orchard, we came to a halt in the middle of the road.

  • Shortly before dark we arrived at Gordon's Mills and came to a halt.

  • Shortly before dark we entered Bardstown, and found that the Rebels had, as usual, "skedaddled.

  • Shortly before I left my hostess introduced me to her, and naturally I endeavoured to make myself extremely agreeable.

  • Shortly before Christmas my father set out by stage coach, to save his horse from the hardships of winter travel, and when he arrived in Swinemünde the thermometer stood at 15° below zero, Fahrenheit.

  • Shortly before ten o'clock Innstetten alighted in front of his residence.

  • Shortly before Webster's death another orator of world-wide reputation was heard at Washington.

  • Shortly before this a pro-slavery mob at Alton, Illinois, murdered the Rev.

  • But what was the situation in March, 1918, shortly before my resignation?

  • My predecessor, Burian, shortly before he left, had drawn up a peace proposal together with Bethmann.

  • Footnote 4: Shortly before this, a report had been spread of the nomination of Marshal Berthier, prince of Neufchatel, as perpetual Landammann of Switzerland.

  • Shortly before in answer to the scornful question of a heathen, “What is your Carpenter’s Son doing now?

  • Shortly before Christmas he escaped from Spires with his wife and child, and in spite of a severe winter crossed Mount Cenis.

  • Christian commercial town Cherson, shortly before conquered by him, Vladimir was baptized with the name Basil, and at the same time he received the hand of the princess Anna.

  • Shortly before seven o'clock, his approach was observed; and Garside rising and advancing to him, shot him dead before he had time to utter a word, or to offer the smallest resistance to the cowardly attack made upon him.

  • The solemn and dreadful ceremonies in the prison in the mean time had been completed, and the usual procession was formed shortly before eight o'clock.

  • Christian Church at Paris, the feast of the Epiphany in January, shortly before he publicly renounced the Christian religion.

  • Ambrose obtained from Theodosius, shortly before, the passing of the law that no sentence against a city should take effect till thirty days had expired.

  • Shortly before Christmas, 428, a priest named Anastasius, whom the new archbishop had brought from Antioch, was preaching in S.

  • They were printed from a manuscript deposited in 1843 in the British Museum, and obtained, shortly before, from a monastery in the desert of Nitria in Egypt.

  • Shortly before, many in Rome of great wealth and eminent station had become Christians.

  • However, one madman had been the God of Medicine to the other; his dream of Elysium was dreamed out, shortly before it seemed about to be fulfilled, and he was rational again.

  • Shortly before he came, she had taken off from her eyes a warm bandage of roast apples.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shortly 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:
    also came; became aware; begotten thee; black arrow; canna help; chestnut blight; could not; eight fathoms; essential service; general principle; great nobleman; ground glass; inch hole; natural philosophy; say that; shortly before; shortly before his death; then return; thing like; true prophet; watch over; what might; woolen goods