heretofore

Example Sentences

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I’m a reporter, I told her, which is true, and she seemed a worthy subject — for purposes heretofore unrealized.

From Washington Post

Constructed in 2021, the “Green Jacket Experience” and “Green Jacket Vault” were heretofore accessible only to club members and their guests.

From Los Angeles Times

No more pacing about in the latter innings by relief pitchers who heretofore treated each pitch like a State of the Union address, whether the game was 1-1 or 12-0.

From Los Angeles Times

Each deeper misery being a state heretofore unimagined.

From New York Times

And so the strength I pray for and the freedom I seek bear convolutions heretofore unaddressed, make me the radical’s radical, inspire a sacrifice so deep it rattles the old bones and the old stones.

From New York Times