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Example sentences for "thing before"

  • I have not seen such a thing before, since I left Long Island.

  • Never was so barefaced a thing before heard of in the world.

  • It was done by women, who had never done such a thing before.

  • Defn: The death of one person or thing before another.

  • Law) Defn: The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered.

  • Defn: Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.

  • Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.

  • The death of one person or thing before another.

  • David replied somewhat grudgingly that he had never done such a thing before.

  • Then I ask if you are in the habit of taking these midnight strolls, and with some signs of hesitation you say that you have never done such a thing before.

  • David followed into the dining-room in a dreamy kind of way, and with the feeling that comes to us all at times, the sensation of having done and seen the same thing before.

  • I wondered; I did not remember having heard of such a thing before.

  • Possibly you may not have seen such a thing before.

  • But I wonder who ever heard of such a thing before," said Miss Fortune, pausing with her cup of coffee half-way to her lips.

  • But I never did such a thing before," said Ellen.

  • But I wonder who ever heard of such a thing before," said Miss Fortune, pausing with her cup of coffee half way to her lips.


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thing 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:
    climatic influences; hazel nuts; human sympathy; infinitely more; little husband; more danger; seems desirable; thing before; thing cannot; thing impossible; thing like; thing that; thing which; things are; things divine; things done; things hoped; things like; things must; things past; things pertaining; things seen; things that; things themselves; things which; who had been sent