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Example sentences for "theretofore"

Lexicographically close words:
thereout; thereover; theres; therethrough; thereto; thereunder; thereunto; thereupon; thereuppon; therevnto
  1. Also the Court of Appeals of New York, the leading exponent of no liability without fault, had theretofore imposed a liability without regard to negligence in the case of blasting.

  2. Theretofore the habits of a thinker had set his feet in paths apart from those of other men.

  3. But this was something vastly different from the run of experiences that had theretofore fallen to his lot.

  4. Thirty years after I set foot upon its shore, theretofore unvisited by a white man, a countryman of ours from this city, the sole survivor of a shipwreck, joined me.

  5. The memory, theretofore so prompt, had now no reply.

  6. So, too, a person who has engaged in rebellion, but has not theretofore held an office and taken that oath, is not disqualified.

  7. Stanton from forthwith resuming the functions of the office of Secretary for the Department of War, notwithstanding the refusal of the Senate to concur in the suspension theretofore made by said Andrew Johnson of said Edwin M.

  8. Girardin entirely upset and rooted out all the old notions theretofore prevailing as to the conduct of a journal.

  9. There is not the literary skill, the artistical ability, the energy, the learning, and the eloquence which theretofore existed.

  10. On the 8th of December Buchanan transmitted his first message to Congress, which satisfied the world that he had abandoned such faint convictions as he had theretofore had and surrendered unconditionally to the South.

  11. Railroads and canals were beginning to be built, with promise of closer relations between the villages and settlements theretofore lost in the solitudes.

  12. Only forty minutes had elapsed since the Englishman had entered the house, and he had already exploded all the theories theretofore formed, and which had been based on what appeared to be obvious and undeniable facts.

  13. Graham County was created by the Arizona Legislature in the spring of 1881, the settlement south of the Gila theretofore having been in Pima County.

  14. The acids which had theretofore been more or less introduced into inks, except oxalic acid, could not effect such results.

  15. A State withdrawing from the Union would necessarily assume the control theretofore exercised by the General Government over all public defenses and other public property within her limits.

  16. The girl no longer gave him her entire attention, neither did she appear to tax her brain to the same extent as theretofore in order to engross his every thought.

  17. Perhaps there was a breaking off of the friendly relations theretofore existing between one of the down-town district leaders and one of the powers--name deleted--higher up.

  18. Thus, when the Lusitania sailed from New York, her owner and master were justified in believing that, whatever else and theretofore happened, this simple, humane and universally accepted principle would not be violated.

  19. And when he did, it was sternly and harshly enough, but without that roar which had theretofore characterized his voice.

  20. I have always since given Professor Drown credit for teaching me practical astronomy by first leading me to the discovery that I had a natural taste and aptitude for such work, theretofore unsuspected.

  21. If any proof of hostility had been theretofore wanting, that demonstration supplied it and determined General Gaines to act heartily in conjunction with Governor Reynolds, and hastily as well.

  22. He brought with him recognition of the right of Virginians to the writ of Habeas Corpus, which though, since Magna Carta, the common heritage of every free-born Englishman, had not theretofore run in Virginia.

  23. Gentlefolk, wholly unused to manual labor, perforce turned to tasks theretofore the work of their slaves.

  24. Theretofore he had certainly always differentiated between the autocracy, as also Militarism, on the one hand, and the German people on the other.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theretofore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    already; before; earlier; early; ere; heretofore; hitherto; previously; yet