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Example sentences for "before long"

  • Before long, what seemed a live ember rested for a moment on the rim of the ocean, and at last the blood-red sun stood full and round in the level East, and the long sea-day began.

  • When I inquired for you at the door, they told me you had gone out, but that you were expected back before long.

  • You would have heard from me before long.

  • Upon my word and honor, Lecount, you would have heard from me before long!

  • It will be a forbidden pleasure to me before long.

  • Before long a pot-house supper was served, of which I did not partake; but not wishing to seem bad company I drank two or three small glasses of Hungarian wine.

  • Three quarters of an hour afterwards I went to bed and my mistress came to me before long.

  • Before long it was proposed that we should go to the play, but excusing myself on the plea of business I returned to Paris.

  • So before long he had complete confidence in me.

  • Before long a noise of kissing made me turn round, and I saw Scholastica, on whom the punch had taken effect, devouring Armelline's breast with kisses.

  • So before long I had my eyes opened to two facts; the one that she was sure of my love, and wondered why I did not declare it; the other, that if I chose I had an easy conquest before me.

  • Before long we closed in near enough to catch occasional glimpses of the beasts, bounding easily along.

  • Before long, however, we began to accumulate a following.

  • Before long a dozen women were lined up in front of us staring at Billy with all their might.

  • Had Mr. Baxendale resisted the new means of conveyance, he would, before long, have been driven off the road.

  • If the woman who has a household to manage be innocent of addition and multiplication; and if she fail to keep a record of her income or expenditure, she will, before long, find herself in great trouble.

  • I guess wrong, if I guessed that you will have a marriage in the family, too, before long?

  • Mrs. Karnegie suddenly asked him why he wasted his looks on her, when he would have "Mrs. Graham" to look at before long.

  • They ran as follows: "I may have news to bring you, before long, which you don't look for.

  • Facts, before long, made evident the sad result of this.

  • Before long he had seen forming, beside Port Royal and in the solitude of the fields, a nucleus of penitents, emulous of the hermits of the desert.

  • Before long he resolved to attempt the assault.

  • Here is a prince who will succeed me before long," said the king on presenting his grandson to the assembly of the clergy; "by his virtue and piety he will render the church still more flourishing, and the kingdom more happy.

  • Undoubtedly, as a result of the labors of so many scores of physicists and physicians as are now working at the problem, before long we shall be able to skiagraph at least the thinner parts of the body in a very brief interval.

  • Before long, however, he entered the studio of Paul Delaroche, who was the popular master of the time.

  • Before long he was elected vice-president of the Chamber.

  • Before long, rows of National Guards fringed the whole avenue.

  • Before long, eight Prussians and an officer entered the city.

  • Before long a huge one-eyed monster drove in his flocks, and, after closing the opening of his cave with a rock which no one else could move, proceeded to milk his ewes and make cheese.

  • Before long, therefore, poor Florimell heard this monster crashing through the forest.

  • Before long Aeneas' fleet landed on the Thracian coast, where, while preparing a sacrifice, our hero was horrified to see blood flow from the trees he cut down.

  • Before long he came to the land of the Cyclops, and disembarked on a small neighboring island to renew his stock of food and water.

  • Before long, however, it becomes so evident they are merely delaying the inevitable issue, that they agree to withdraw from the field, leaving mortals to settle the matter themselves.

  • It had already, in the previous year and on the occasion of a treaty concluded between the two kings for the restitution of Tournai to France, been settled that they should meet before long in token of reconciliation.

  • Queen Eleanor, before long, went and tapped at his door, and sent word to the king that the emperor was awake.

  • Before long he actually did doze off and lay in that state while the long hours dragged slowly by.

  • Before long, the rough habitations of Blue Creek lay far behind them, and in front there lay, glittering under the blinding sun, the far-reaching expanse of the desert.

  • Before long a roaring blaze was ready, and then the boy began the task of skinning and preparing the rabbit for cooking.

  • Before long it was taken up again, and removed to the Museum of Antiquities, where it remained until the year 1869, when it found a more fitting resting-place in the choir of the cathedral.

  • They quickly attended to this piece of information, and employed a body of workmen who, before long, succeeded in bringing to light the missing money.

  • Before long he emerged into the sunlight once more.

  • Before long I saw a glow on the sky behind me, and knew that flames were devouring the vile stuff that moonshiners make.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "before long" 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:
    been left; before beginning; before being; before breakfast; before coming; before daylight; before her; before hinted; before noticed; before observed; before reaching; before related; before stated; before taking; before the; before their; before them; before thou; before whom; before you; begged them; cool slowly; great peril; material thing; perfect rest; really didn