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Example sentences for "until the"

  • Waist-deep, they fought beneath the tall trees, until the war-cry was hushed and the Indians glided back into the west.

  • Hard tales of cruelty and mistreatment of the chained freemen are told, but the county authorities were deaf until the free-labor market was nearly ruined by wholesale migration.

  • Nevertheless, in our part, things went on as usual, until the middle of June was nigh.

  • In the whirling of my wits, I fancied first that this was Lorna; until the scene I had been through fell across hot brain and heart, like the drop at the close of a tragedy.

  • It had been intended to keep me in waiting, until the return of Lord Jeffreys, from that awful circuit of shambles, through which his name is still used by mothers to frighten their children into bed.

  • So while the one remained in this retreat, the other rode rapidly all day long, until the darkness of night came on, and caused her great anxiety.

  • In such distress they remained a long time in Brittany, I believe, until the end of the summer came.

  • Erec stayed at court, together with Guivret and Enide, until the death of his father, the king, who was an old man and full of years.

  • Rodomont listened, nor a word replied, Until the landlord's story was suspended.

  • CXX Within the town the troop set up their rest, Until the law is graved, of different frame From that before upon the stone imprest, Which every woman doom'd to death and shame.

  • As torch to torch gives fire, and lights increase, Until the flame is spread the country through, Even so from heart to heart the fury spread, Which in the waves would doom Orlando dead.

  • Until the King at last, Gusty and overcast, Like a tempestuous blast Threatened and lowered.

  • I protest against such a combat," said the Venetian proveditore, "until the King of England shall have repaid the fifty thousand byzants which he is indebted to the republic.

  • The orator had been the head of the city's relief bureau in the stockyards, until the sight of misery and corruption had made him sick.

  • No one will stir from this room until the arrival of the justice----" Madame Leon was bursting with rage.

  • The noise and bustle of each entr'acte aroused him a little, but he did not thoroughly wake up until the close of the performance.

  • Medical skill spread further and further until the time of aesculapius.

  • When he lived, in his generation, which was the seventh generation of man, he commanded it and testified it unto his children and his children's children, until the day of his death.

  • It took from the first of Ab until the first of Tishri for the waters to subside wholly from the face of the earth.

  • It began on the seventeenth day of Heshwan, and the rain continued for forty days, until the twenty-seventh of Kislew.

  • Noah had scarcely come into the world when a marked change was noticeable.

  • But all these Divine blessings showered upon Abraham were not undeserved.

  • He had noticed that Abraham had invited no poor man, and he knew that his house was the right place for him.

  • The angels answered, "As the Lord liveth, were not Jacob thy brother, we had not left one remaining of thee and thy people, but on account of Jacob we will do nothing to thee.

  • In their highest manifestations, these two feelings exalt themselves, until the first he comes the love of God, and the second the love of Man.

  • He kept ahead, until the opening of the eleventh round.

  • She had lain there utterly helpless, from illness, until the beginning of September.

  • Again it remained with the Jews, until the time of King Ahaz, who sent it to Sennacherib as tribute money.

  • Until the time of Jacob death had always come upon men suddenly, and snatched them away before they were warned of the imminent end by sickness.

  • But however great your merits as a trader or a soldier, if you were born of non-Athenian parents, you remained a "foreigner" until the end of time.

  • Until the time of his death, Peter could reform in peace.

  • Until the year 1380 when Dmitry Donskoi, Grand Duke of Moscow, beat them on the plains of Kulikovo, the Tartars were the masters of the Russian people.

  • From that time on until the year of his death, Mohammed was fortunate in everything he undertook.

  • Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you To pardon me yet for a night or two; Or, if not so, until the sun be set.

  • Stir not until the signal not until the signal.

  • Now, until the break of day, Through this house each fairy stray.

  • To conclude, the greatest of all difficulties was the shortage of money voted for airship development, and this was a disadvantage under which airships laboured even until the conclusion of hostilities.

  • Until the year 1916 the Zeppelin may be considered to have passed through three stages of design.

  • From the year 1905 until the outbreak of war Messrs.

  • The ship rode at the mooring post in a steady wind, which at one time increased to 36 miles per hour, until the afternoon of May 25th, and sustained no damage whatever.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "until the" 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:
    about ten; civil suits; dearest friends; developed teeth; free society; great misery; light ground; little sweetheart; long thoughts; loss what; man had; natural features; official residence; sugar plantation; this coast; unleavened cakes; until about; until after; until death; until further; until light; until otherwise; until suddenly; until they; until very; would perhaps