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112 example sentences for HITHERTO, such as:
1. His brain will wilt from hitherto unprecedented weariness.
2. Waldman, whom I had never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.
3. The objects that had made a shadow hitherto, embodied the brightness now.
4. The weather, which had hitherto been sunny and mild, suddenly turned cold.
5. No incidents have hitherto befallen us that would make a figure in a letter.
2. Waldman, whom I had never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.
3. The objects that had made a shadow hitherto, embodied the brightness now.
4. The weather, which had hitherto been sunny and mild, suddenly turned cold.
5. No incidents have hitherto befallen us that would make a figure in a letter.
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Meanings and Examples of HITHERTO
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hitherto
ad. used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1 No incidents have hitherto befallen us that would make a figure in a letter.
2 Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through.
3 I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country.
4 My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.
5 Waldman, whom I had never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.
6 I had hitherto supposed him to be the murderer of my brother, and I eagerly sought a confirmation or denial of this opinion.
7 When I found this, I resolved to quit the place that I had hitherto inhabited, to seek for one where the few wants I experienced would be more easily satisfied.
8 A change indeed had taken place in me; my health, which had hitherto declined, was now much restored; and my spirits, when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise, rose proportionably.
9 Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
10 Even the poor baby at Hester's bosom was affected by the same influence, for it directed its hitherto vacant gaze towards Mr. Dimmesdale, and held up its little arms with a half-pleased, half-plaintive murmur.
11 The physician advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment, that hitherto had always covered it even from the professional eye.
12 She possessed affections, too, though hitherto acrid and disagreeable, as are the richest flavours of unripe fruit.
13 The objects that had made a shadow hitherto, embodied the brightness now.
14 The complaints and lamentations which politeness had hitherto restrained, now burst forth universally; and they all agreed again and again how provoking it was to be so disappointed.
15 I gave Miss Mowcher my hand, with a very different opinion of her from that which I had hitherto entertained, and opened the door to let her out.
Example Sentence:
1 The weather, which had hitherto been sunny and mild, suddenly turned cold.
2 Having completed her task, she rose to draw down the blind, which she had hitherto kept up, by way, I suppose, of making the most of daylight, though dusk was now fast deepening into total obscurity.
3 Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.
4 His brain will wilt from hitherto unprecedented weariness.