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Example sentences for "until"

Lexicographically close words:
untidiness; untidy; untie; untied; unties; untill; untilled; untimely; untinctured; untinged
  1. Barckhausen and I continued along the south shore of the lake until we struck the River de los Antiguos, a small but rapid torrent flowing through a huge frowning gorge, between very steep barrancas.

  2. Ascensio waited until his brother happened to be away tracking horses in a particularly wild part, and then he rounded up the remainder of the stock, and he and the lady fled yet deeper into the interior.

  3. The farther and middle distances were peopled with snow-peaks, rising in minarets above their girdles of dark forest, which last stretched downwards until they lipped the black water at the mountain bases.

  4. I lay down and crawled until I came to some water, and then I looked again.

  5. The desire is to keep the animal quivering until the child is put inside.

  6. We would rush down upon such a place, and not until we were within forty yards would the river open out grey and shining, the helm be put over, and we find ourselves flying down another reach.

  7. They then signal their whereabouts to one another by means of smokes until the ring round the guanaco is complete.

  8. We were naturally very anxious to secure a specimen of this very interesting and little known deer, but it was not until we made our trip round the south side of the lake that we were successful.

  9. Last of all, you go on enduring until you become, as it were, acclimatised, and inclined to laugh at the despair you experienced a while previously.

  10. We marched until about three o'clock, when, coming up to an empty shanty, we took shelter in it for a while, as it happened to be very hot.

  11. The tides of civilisation are moving slowly westwards, and will so continue to move until they are thrown back by the great natural barrier of the Andes.

  12. For two days we held along in this valley or on the pampa immediately above it, but, remembering our experiences near Santa Cruz, I resolved to sleep in no boliche until we reached Gallegos.

  13. Nothing was done, until at last she knew you.

  14. Backward I draw your anguished hair Until your eyes are stretched with pain; Backward I press you until you cry, Your lips grow white, I kiss you again, I will take a torch and set you afire, I will break your body and fling it away.

  15. Or if she lived, no matter in what country, By what far river or hill or lonely sea, He would look in every face until he found her .

  16. This is the central chamber you have come to: Turning your back to the world, until you came To this deep room, and looked through rose-stained windows, And saw the hues of the world so sweetly changed.

  17. On this leaf, goes a dream I dreamed last night Of two soft-patterned toads--I thought them stones, Until they hopped!

  18. Until he saw those young eyes, quietly smiling, And held his breath to stare, And could have sworn her cheek had turned--a little .

  19. Not until later was he to reach the height of an impersonal objectivity in his art.

  20. In her glee she forgot that her treasures were growing less, and with the swift motion of childhood, she flung them upon the sparkling tide, until every bud and blossom had disappeared.

  21. We can never expect promotion here, except by taking our place among the lowest, and sharing their difficulties until they are removed, and we all become graduates together for a higher school.

  22. I did not attempt writing for money until it became a necessity, when my health failed at teaching, although I should long before then have liked to spend my whole time with my pen, could I have done so.

  23. We were close neighbors and gossips until my fourth year.

  24. Caroline afterwards became an inmate of my mother's family, and we were warm friends until her death a few years ago.

  25. Then, charging me not to move until he came back, he would leave me sitting alone on a great craggy rock, while he went off and filled his basket out of sight among the bushes.

  26. I had never thought my father's face a beautiful one until then, but I believe it must have been so, always.

  27. Must I think of Myself as a heathen, then, until I should be old enough to be a Christian?

  28. All went well until we came to a bog by the roadside, where sweet-flag and cat-tails grew.

  29. I understood, from talks I had listened to among older people, that infancy lasted until children were about twelve years of age.

  30. The domestic problem can never be rightly settled until the old idea of mutual help is in some way restored.

  31. But we did not let each other know what the sigh was for, until long after.

  32. Again Noda begged off, claiming he'd be honored to guide the esteemed senator's tour personally, but surely they'd both prefer to postpone that until such time as they had the leisure to review the operation in detail.

  33. No one troubled about the Persian Gulf states until they had OPEC and the rest of us had no petroleum.

  34. I watched spellbound as she emptied about twenty rounds into the processor bank as well as into everything else in sight, continuing until smoke started to pour out of the flooring below, followed by the crackle of electrical shorting.

  35. Don't know why, but until that moment none of us had really wanted to know what was in Noda's case.

  36. She felt her body flush with warmth as slowly, gently, his strength once more held in check, he carefully slid back the cloth off her shoulders until her breasts were free.

  37. Message J9 told everybody not to come in until further communication.

  38. Treasury obligations are held by a variety of investors in Japan, but up until now we have made very little use of the protection possible in your futures markets.

  39. Now that MlTI was determined not to release our names until they located our remains, we looked to be in limbo as far as Matsuo Noda and Dai Nippon were concerned.

  40. President finally got around to issuing an Executive Order suspending all trading at the exchanges in government bills, notes, and bonds, including futures contracts, until further notice.

  41. Noda reported he had spoken with Kenji Asano, who was unfortunately tied up in meetings and couldn't join us until tomorrow.

  42. What has happened up until today might be likened to the Ken no Sen.

  43. It will make a reality of the British Commonwealth, which until now has been only an aspiration and a dream.

  44. But the convulsions of war have thrown up things that are deeper than these, primaeval things, which, until recently, civilization was believed to have destroyed.

  45. She will not do this until she is forced to it by defeat.

  46. These men will never be our masters until we deserve to be their slaves.

  47. He turned in the opposite direction, and tramped the woods until nightfall.

  48. Enough to tide over the time until you came.

  49. I at length told him I was more free and at my ease in my own house, and that I had rather continue until the end of my life to come and see him.

  50. I felt the nature of our relation to each other was about to change, and that what until then had on my part been favor and friendship, would in future become so on hers.

  51. It was not until seven years afterwards that I suspected the nature of the theft.

  52. It was to this effect I answered both these gentlemen, and the correspondence lasted until my departure.

  53. San Francisco would be grateful, and it would be a graceful thing for the government to do, to keep away the sharks until the people should get their heads above water again, not as charity, but for the general good.

  54. Always the march of intellectual development has been from east to west, the old East dying as the new West bursts into being, until now west is east, and the final issue must here be met.

  55. Never to be forgotten was the superb benevolence which so promptly and so liberally showered comforts upon the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the houseless until it was feared that the people might become pauperized.

  56. Until recently New York has given but little thought to pleasing effects.

  57. Indeed it was too much to expect of poor human nature until selfishness and greed are yet further eliminated.

  58. The fur of the beaver, otter, muskrat and bear remains in good condition until late in the spring.

  59. Foxes of the various kinds should be cased and put on boards fur side in for a few days, or until dry.

  60. The males should be kept by themselves, at least from the time the young are born, until they are two months of age or older.

  61. They should be allowed to remain in these small enclosures until the young animals are large enough to take care of themselves, when they should be separated and the females may again be placed in the large enclosure.

  62. If a skin is wet when taken from the animal, it should be drawn lightly on a board until the fur is quite dry.

  63. The male and the female should be permitted to be together frequently from the middle of February until the middle of March.

  64. It is especially bad after the young foxes are born, as the mother fearing for the safety of her young, will move them about continuously until they are badly injured or die of exposure.

  65. The female does not usually breed until the third year, and produces but one calf at a time.

  66. They can be raised profitably for venison--very profitably until overdone; but I would not advise one to go into it on a large scale without previous experience with deer.

  67. The fawns are spotted until the first shedding of the hair in the fall.

  68. After being placed in the pouch, they attach themselves to the teats of the mother, and remain in that condition until they have become large enough to move about.

  69. The female, with her large family, should be given plenty of food from the time the young are a few days old until weaned, as she requires a great deal of food to satisfy her cravings and to supply the numerous young.

  70. When born they are very small and imperfectly formed and are immediately placed by the mother in the pouch on her belly, where they remain until they have attained a perfect form and have become large enough to walk about.

  71. They were usually placed under the care of servants and the bucks were left uncastrated until they became old and unmanageable.

  72. We suffered great losses to our flocks until we learned this fact; since then we have had no loss from that cause.

  73. No form that has the appearance of being painfully drawn can ever be a graceful one; and so the Pre-Raphaelite, until he has something of a master's facility and decision, can never be graceful.

  74. Vicious tendencies pass down in a family, appearing in the most various manifestations, until at last the evil of the race works its only possible remedy, by resulting in its extinction.

  75. Of a spherical solid which stood sentinel over its compartment of space before the stone that became the pyramids had grown solid, and has watched it until now!

  76. Isabella did not go to the Willows again, until all the Lester family were summoned there to a large party that Mrs. Blanchard gave.

  77. B] From this insignificant beginning the importation has grown from year to year, until ninety million pounds went to Great Britain in 1856, forty million coming to the United States the same year.

  78. Nothing remarkable occurs thereupon until Rama has attained the marriageable age, when he espouses Seeta, daughter of the King of Mithili.

  79. Slaves, toys, idols, companions, they rise with every ascending grade of culture until they have won the natural place so long denied them.

  80. But, I exclaim, you say he never saw her until yesterday?

  81. Ancient it certainly is, as Caesar mentions this district, but its most memorable day was that upon which it closed its gates in the face of a vast Burgundian army, and kept them closed until succour arrived from Paris.

  82. It is not so much in the statue itself that the beauty lies, but in the wonderfully natural arrangement of the robe which flows behind in billowy folds, until one touches it and marvels that it is really marble and not heavy satin.

  83. To-day as we roll onward from the smiling country into the streets of the town, the cathedral looms up grander and grander until all thought of anything else passes from the mind.

  84. To please his mother he had married a woman he could never love; in fact, he never had known what love was until he met his present companion.

  85. They did not seem to possess the strong feeling for "home" which keeps these Germans where they were born until they leave the fatherland for ever.

  86. We make quick time, crossing the Rhine at Breisach, and then on through its wide green valley until we reach Freiburg, nestling under the hills which form a lovely background for the stately red stone spire of the great Cathedral.

  87. Until the Maid delivered Orleans it was the capital of France.

  88. To-day the charm of Germany does not fasten upon me until the shadows gather and the lights come out in her ancient city of Freiburg.

  89. Gazing backward the majestic double aisles reach away until lost in perspective and the roof of the nave in the fading light is so far above one as almost to seem a portion of the sky.

  90. As we move farther and farther afield, I turn again and again to look backward and each time the cathedral has risen higher and higher until it reigns supreme in a kingdom all its own,--a thing not made by man.

  91. I will drive the low fellows together like deer for hunting, for they are all rogues and villains, and I shall know how to torture them until I find the right one.

  92. He found the sick man in great anxiety, for he had waited until now for his son in vain, and feared that Hermas had met with some accident--or had abandoned him, and fled out into the world.

  93. These rules shall be observed until altered by any future Congress, and shall be copied into the Book of the Resolutions of Government.

  94. I hesitated to speak," he said, "until I had prepared you for what I had to say.

  95. I am in earnest now, and I reverence her so that I would not say a word until I have spoken to her mother and her friends.

  96. A dozen times over he had been on the point of going to Thickens, awakening him and forcing him to declare that he would keep the fearful discovery a secret until something could be done.

  97. Christie Bayle was very young, and he had suddenly grown enthusiastic; so that when he commenced some work he never paused until it was either well in train or was done.

  98. Such men, until they have been proved, have no right to be free.

  99. Meanwhile Millicent stood waiting until a well-known cough announced the coming of Sir Gordon, who entered the room and with grave courtesy placed a chair for his visitor.

  100. I should have toiled on for my child's sake, and waited patiently until my husband bade me come.

  101. For myself, I would live and bear until the end; but I am driven to it--I am driven to it.

  102. He must take all in charge until your successor is found.

  103. Until I got the keys made, I was not sure.

  104. And, not only in writing, but all other kinds of imposition, he who can devise some project for giving men a surprise, will be a celebrated person, until they are recovered from it.

  105. Nor could I at first regulate the effort of my muscles in walking, but every step was a great bound; and until I had had some experience, I was not able to walk with any moderation.

  106. Rectus agreed that things looked a little bluish, but he thought we might pay the income ourselves, until after the coronation, and then we could see what else could be done.

  107. She called to the pilot to stop the boat and go back for her hat, but the captain, who was up in the pilot-house, stuck out his head and said he reckoned she'd have to wait until they came back.

  108. We concluded not to call it a palace until after the ceremony.

  109. I very much hoped she would sleep until we reached the city, and then we could take her directly to her kind friends.

  110. Corny, for a wonder, did not reprove Priscilla for giving the sentinel the idea that her employers hired penny-pitchers to follow them around, but she walked on in silence until we were out of the grounds.

  111. Until next Tuesday," I said, "and then we shall start for Nassau in the 'Tigris.

  112. Menendez; and we ran on until we had pulled it high and dry up on the sand.

  113. She resumed her former position, and we breathed a little easier, although I thought that it might be well for us to go to some other part of the boat until she had finished her sport.

  114. We didn't think of this until this morning," cried Scott.

  115. Father said he should remain in the city for a few days, now that we were all here, and Uncle Chipperton did not intend to go to his country-place until the weather was warmer.

  116. I intended to try to keep under until I got into water shallow enough for me to touch bottom, and walk ashore.

  117. We staid out on deck until after eleven o'clock, and Corny staid with us a good part of the time.

  118. Hence we ought not to pray for our enemies.

  119. And I wrote my request on a wax tablet and I gave it them to read.

  120. An Indulgence of 100 days for the recitation of this rhythm.

  121. But at the same time it has many acts by means of which it arrives at this final act.

  122. Moreover, the Church's custom confirms this, for she frequently asks to be helped by the prayers of the Saints.

  123. The Divine Essence, then, is a sufficient medium for knowing all things, as, indeed, is evident from the fact that God in seeing His own essence sees all things.

  124. Thomas was born in the beginning of the year 1225 in the castle of Rocca-Secca, the ancestral home of the Counts of Aquino, in the kingdom of Sicily.

  125. For you remember how a needy man came to his friend's house and asked for three loaves.

  126. Is Religion One of the Theological Virtues?

  127. The Italian cities continued to protect the slave trade until the middle of the sixteenth century.

  128. It grew until it surpassed and superseded the sober drama.

  129. It was produced by developing other devices, due to other motives, until money was reached as a result.

  130. Formerly a Kaffir would work in the diamond mines for three marks a day until he got money enough to buy cattle and to buy a woman at home, a European suit, a kettle, and a rifle.

  131. This mockery ran through the Roman empire until the end of the fourth century, when the church got the protection of the state against public insult, but Christianity fell under the dominion of heathen mores.

  132. Enactment is not possible until reverence for ancestors has been so much weakened that it is no longer thought wrong to interfere with traditional customs by positive enactment.

  133. Until the knowledge becomes adequate the effects which are encountered appear to be accidents or cases of luck.

  134. In Germany Till Eulenspiegel was a rascal who lived in the first part of the fourteenth century and around whose name anecdotes clustered until he became an anti-hero.

  135. It is impossible to have wives and cattle too until one's daughters grow up.

  136. Nevertheless, the bystanders have, until very recent times, pretended to a right to pass judgment and exert an influence on the remarriage of widows, and less frequently of widowers.

  137. They are not noticed until they have long existed, and it is still longer before they are appreciated.

  138. And southward dug they many a rood, until before their shuddering sight, The next earth-bearing elephant stood, huge Mahapadmas' mountain height.

  139. After this I return home, waiting until dusk, however, as I do not like to attract attention.

  140. The female of this same mammal goes into the ladies' department and remains there until starvation drives her out.

  141. They ought not to stop all of a sudden, but they could leave off a dog at a time until at last they overcame the pernicious habit.

  142. This cider when put into a brandy flask that has not been drained too dry, and allowed to stand until Christmas, puts a great deal of expression into a country dance.

  143. A good thing to do on observing the approach of a mad dog is to flee, and remain fled until he has disappeared.

  144. There was another way that I could have gone, but it did not occur to me until too late.

  145. He always suffered keenly and felt shocked over the accident until you had gone away, and then he would sigh heavily and "set" the chair again.

  146. The guide said that was impossible, for smoking tobacco was not introduced into Italy until a comparatively late day.

  147. The male goes into the wash room, bathes his worthless carcass from daylight until breakfast time, walking on the feet of any man who tries to wash his face during that time.

  148. I then resolved to remain where I was until I could decide what was best to be done.

  149. I remember that I wore a large pair of Mexican spurs, but I forgot them until the saddle turned.

  150. These meetings and dances are kept up until the hens cease laying and begin to sit.

  151. Day by day the young wife watched for his return on the shore, but he was detained until the winter passed away and with it his faithful bride.

  152. It is reported by some that the marriage took place and not until after the couple were happily wedded was the hero called to Athens by the death of his father.

  153. This sport they continue, apparently with the keenest enjoyment, until fatigue or hunger induces them to desist.

  154. My father, walking excitedly up and down the room, declared that both his daughters had behaved infamously, and that he would not suffer them to speak to him again until they had come to their senses, on the subject of Mr. Dunboyne.

  155. Considerately leaving Eunice in the enjoyment of any vain hopes which she may have founded on the event of the dinner-party, I passed the evening until supper-time came in the study with my father.

  156. There was nothing worth writing about, nothing that I could recollect, until the postman came to-day.

  157. I read on quietly enough until I came to the postscript.

  158. Helena descended, until she reached the last stair but one.

  159. Consider me as a stranger until you are married.

  160. He wrote to me no more, until years had passed, and time had exerted its influence in producing a more indulgent frame of mind.

  161. The London people shall wait for me, until they miss me--and, when I do go back, they will find the fees increased.

  162. No, my dear; I beg you will defer writing, until you hear from me again.

  163. She deferred her answer, until I had first told her whether the visit of the doctor might be expected on that day.

  164. It was not until Philip had insisted on seeing him that she consented to send for the doctor.

  165. I had foreseen that Mrs. Tenbruggen would wait to set her enterprise on foot, until I was out of her way; and I had calculated on my absence as an event which would at least put an end to suspense by encouraging her to begin.

  166. I had to look over the letters, in Eunice's own interests; and I begged her to let me defer my visit to the farm until the next day.

  167. With the agony of despair, such men would remonstrate against any such suicidal policy, and entreat the Government of the United States and the people of the North to stand by them in their great distress, through, until the end.

  168. But Massachusetts did not become a manufacturing State until after the tariff of 1824.

  169. As anxious as I am to see peace established, I would not, therefore, be willing to see any settlement until this question is forever settled.

  170. Until then he had lived, breathed, and thought only of obtaining the Jewel Tree, and once that had been accomplished, he felt that his anxieties were over.

  171. Another cot was put into Chris's room, and night after night they would hang out the two mansard windows, watching what went on below until it was too dark to see.

  172. Chris now knew how lonely he had been until he set Amos free from his wooden shroud, but, warned by Mr. Wicker, he did not tell his new friend that he came from another year as yet unreached by the time they lived in.

  173. But until it has been it appears fantastic, does it not?

  174. Illustration] Rushing and panting, they shoved their way into the dusty rushes, groping back until they could barely see the river through the stalks.

  175. But don't you cross any bridges until you come to them.

  176. Or else they would talk by the light of their candle until they fell asleep.

  177. Here they ate their lunch, and then, running and leaping, followed the turns of the stream until they neared the marshes and the river.

  178. And on one occasion when the Mirabelle was sailing past Brazil, a flock of butterflies was carried out on a breeze from shore and hung on the rigging until the boys imagined themselves in a blossoming wood.

  179. The boy looked down, and the drop below him to the road made his head swim, until he refused to think of it.

  180. Scrambling down, the two boys ran along the stream until it was shallow enough to cross.


  181. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "until" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    until about; until after; until brown; until death; until finally; until further; until lately; until light; until now; until otherwise; until quite; until recent; until recently; until soft; until suddenly; until tender; until the; until then; until they; until thou; until very; until well