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Example sentences for "previously"

Lexicographically close words:
preventives; prevents; preview; prevint; previous; prevision; previsions; prevot; prevy; prewar
  1. Son of Joshua Scholefield, was chosen as the first Mayor after the incorporation, having previously been the High Bailiff of the Court Leet.

  2. He had been previously punished for making a false registration of the birth of a child, the mother of which was his own stepdaughter.

  3. As something worthy of note, it may be mentioned that the Institute was opened free from debt, the whole cost being previously subscribed.

  4. Milk is boiled and soured by being poured into an earthen vessel in which curds have previously been kept.

  5. Previously he had paid a flying visit to Red Cloud agency, and induced a number of Sioux Indians to take part in his drama.

  6. Two years previously he had been honored by the commission of Brigadier-General of the Nebraska National Guard, which rank and title were given to him by Governor Thayer.

  7. It is still often thought, for example, that mind could not have grown up in a universe which previously contained nothing mental, and one ground for this belief is that matter is too dissimilar from mind to have been able to cause it.

  8. To secure a definition giving this result, without previously assuming that physical objects are composed of points, is an agreeable problem in mathematical logic.

  9. Mathematicians, under the influence of Weierstrass, have shown in modern times a care for accuracy, and an aversion to slipshod reasoning, such as had not been known among them previously since the time of the Greeks.

  10. Never had I been so alarmed, nor should I have previously thought myself capable of experiencing such terror.

  11. I remembered Hannibal, who, according to Livy, opened up a passage through the Alps by breaking the rocks with axes and other instruments, having previously softened them with vinegar.

  12. And I should not think so for this reason, that it is impossible for a girl to come to such a resolution without previously showing signs of it to her .

  13. And Clara taken by Vernon would be Clara previously touched, smirched.

  14. Strangely, she knew not how, he had succeeded in swaying her father, who had previously not more than tolerated him.

  15. Previously she had cried, despairing: If I were loved!

  16. The gins had previously retired; a proof that mischief was intended.

  17. It has a dark sweet-scented heartwood, like that of the Bricklow and the Myal and other Acacias, which I had previously met with.

  18. When we approached the water-hole on which we were going to encamp, John observed a fine large Iguana in the water, which was so strikingly coloured that he thought it different from those we had previously seen.

  19. Charley had been at the upper part of the creek on which we were encamped, and found it running and fresh; which made me believe, that those pools of very brackish water we had previously seen, belonged to a different watercourse.

  20. Several insects of the genera Mantis and Truxalis were taken, but did not appear different from those we had previously collected.

  21. I shall have to mention several other instances of the wonderful quickness and accuracy with which Brown as well as Charley were able to recognize localities which they had previously seen.

  22. The most interesting plant, however, is a species of Datura, from one to two feet high, which genus has not previously been observed in Australia.

  23. A Bauhinia, different from the two species I had previously seen, was covered with red blossoms, which, where the tree abounded, gave quite a purple hue to the country.

  24. Having previously examined and found a passage through the scrub, we travelled through it for about eight miles on a north by west course.

  25. The mussel-shells of these water-holes appeared to be narrower and comparatively longer than those we had previously seen.

  26. We met frequent traces of the natives, who had recently gone down the river, having previously burned the grass, leaving very little for our horses and cattle.

  27. Mr. Roper shot some ducks, and I found a species of Ancylus; besides the species of Limnaea and Paludina, which we had previously met with.

  28. As one who stood among the crowd in the pit passage heard a shout and clamour of approbation within, he asked if Zanga had not just previously said, "Then lose her!

  29. This was the notorious Mrs. Curtis, previously mentioned.

  30. In old characters which he assumed for the first time during his proprietorship in Covent Garden, the most successful was Gloucester, in "Jane Shore," to which he gave a force and prominency which it had never previously received.

  31. I have previously shown that the second George did not dislike to witness an insurrection of a theatrical audience.

  32. A score of years was to elapse before she was to change her name; but long previously she had made that first name distinguished in theatrical annals.

  33. They will surely overcome any stingy element in their makeup, if previously possessed with such a factor.

  34. God had previously promised him that he should have just that kind of victory in Canaan.

  35. He points out that "we have anatomical evidence for saying that two or more distinct varieties of men existed in England both previously to and during the period of the Teutonic invasion and domination.

  36. Many of the earliest religious houses rose in the midst of what had previously been trackless wilds.

  37. The Secretary of the Treasury in his report favors legislation looking to an early return to specie payments, thus supporting views previously expressed in this message.

  38. Vessels have been seized without notice or warning, in violation of the custom previously prevailing, and have been taken into the colonial ports, their voyages broken up, and the vessels condemned.

  39. He withdrew to the corner of the cellar where he had been previously seated, and remained motionless for some time, without giving any sign of the agitation of his mind.

  40. Previously I implored it of Heaven as the choicest blessing, and now the thought of it makes me tremble.

  41. In many works it is previously filtered through common salt, which of course absorbs the last traces of water.

  42. Blasting gelatine burns in the air when unconfined without explosion, at least in small quantities and when not previously heated, but it is rather uncertain in this respect.

  43. The charge is then washed in a very similar manner to that previously described, and again wrung out in a centrifugal extractor (1,200 revolutions per minute).

  44. Very often, however, the waste acid is added direct to the charge of nitrate without previously eliminating the nitric acid.

  45. The absorption bulb is half filled with water, and fitted into the ground neck of the glass tube, which is then placed in one of the tubes in the bath previously brought to the boiling point (132° C.

  46. The wire becomes red-hot when connection is made with a Leclanché battery, and the charge which has previously been inserted into the vessel is fired.

  47. The points are dipped into a vessel containing the cap composition, which has been previously moistened with methylated spirit.

  48. It may, however, be used if they are previously converted into the naphthylamines, according to the plan proposed by D'Aguiar and Lautemann (Bull.

  49. A gentleman should not be introduced to a lady, unless her permission has been previously obtained, and no one should ever be introduced into the house of a friend, except permission is first granted.

  50. When a seat is thus occupied, the right of possession must be respected, and no one should presume to take a seat thus previously engaged, even though it may be wanted for a lady.

  51. Stains occasioned by fruit, iron rust and other similar causes may be removed by applying to the parts injured a weak solution of the chloride of lime, the cloth having been previously well washed.

  52. The Jew on board of ship, to whom I have previously referred, who was warned not to wear an American flag because it might cost him money in Europe, was right when he said: "They will see it in mine face that I am from America.

  53. His wife and children then came, and moved into one of the houses previously described, bringing with them twenty men, boarders.

  54. The General at once ordered General Phelps to set his negro brigade at this work, and in the order was particular to quote General Phelps's own opinion, previously delivered, on the necessity of the project.

  55. The opposite order of genius is, as we have previously called it, centripetal, gravitating earthward.

  56. There is no question, from the relation of the deposits, that the Jura in its upheaval carried with it the strata previously accumulated.

  57. The wisdom which was to be offered to the candidate for initiation could only produce the right effect upon his soul if he had previously purified the lower life of his sensibility.

  58. Through these there became manifest what had previously been veiled in the Mysteries.

  59. What had previously been distributed throughout the world was now united in a single personality.

  60. That which man previously had sought to attain through the Mysteries was now replaced by the belief that Christ had lived on earth, and that the faithful belonged to him.

  61. I say of something that it is a tree, if it resembles other things which I have previously observed and which I know to be trees.

  62. Augustine's mode of thought told him, that with the coming of Christ other conditions had set in for souls seeking after the spirit than those which had previously existed.

  63. What flashes up within him spiritually is something divine which was previously under a spell, and which, failing the knowledge he has gained, must have lain fallow and waited for some other exorcist.

  64. Several communications have been previously received from the same quarter, all of them volunteered; none of them have been acknowledged.

  65. Previously the passage between the river and the rocks was about as bad as it could be.

  66. About the year 900 the monks began to cultivate learning, their labour having previously been devoted almost exclusively to the soil.

  67. Two or three weeks previously a mere thread of water wound its way amongst the stones in the centre of the channel.

  68. I retired from his ruin considerably disgusted with its owner, who contrasted badly with all Frenchmen in his social position whom I had previously met.

  69. The landlady and the bar-maid listened with wonder, when who should come in, as previously agreed, but Timothy.

  70. When the hackney-coach stopped, I asked the waiter who came out whether he had apartments, and answering me in the affirmative, I followed him, and was shown into the same rooms I had previously occupied.

  71. This cryptographic alphabet is written on the inner card of the instrument, beginning at a point previously agreed on.

  72. My brother was coming up to see me at the school during preparation and I had previously directed him to follow the short cut through the Sea Wood.

  73. All the other provinces had very soon repeated the offer which they had previously made through Asseliers and La Mouillerie.

  74. Its illustrations surpass all that have previously adorned any book on the same subject"--Daily Telegraph.

  75. It was one of the first towns of the kingdom, if not the very first, to introduce tramways, which it did on the suggestion of George Francis Train, who had previously established a similar mode of conveyance in New York.

  76. The source of the Adur on the borders of St. Leonard's Forest has been previously mentioned; but there are at least two other rills that have an equal claim.

  77. This was an immense gain over the waggon and pack-horse arrangements that had previously prevailed, and the trade of Manchester grew apace, developing eventually more quickly than there were means for dealing with it.

  78. George was in his new suit, for which the tailor had come previously to measure him.

  79. Not aware of her wrath, the young fellow, who had also previously been presented to her, came forward presently to make her his compliments.


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


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    previously described; previously elected; previously explained; previously mentioned; previously noted; previously remarked; previously stated