earlier
IPA: ˈɝɫiɝ
adjective
- occurring previously
adverb
- previously; before now; sooner
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Examples of "earlier" in Sentences
- I remembered then that I had told him my name earlier in the lobby.
- Conservative blogger Glenn Reynolds employed the term earlier this week.
- Associated Press A.C. Milan fans gather to celebrate the club's Serie A title earlier this month.
- EMI was forced to cut 2,000 jobs after the Rolling Stones jumped ship on the label earlier this year.
- Santorum scolded Romney for using the term in a recent debate: The governor used a term earlier that I shrink from.
- "And the governor used a term earlier that I shrink from, and it's one that I don't think we should be using as Republicans: 'middle class.'"
- And to be honest, since David has broadly hinted to me and others that he would only serve one more term, I believed that he would retire a term earlier than he intended in the circumstances.
- Romney "used a term earlier that - that I shrink from, and it's one that I don't think we should be using as Republicans: 'middle class,'" Santorum said during the nationally televised debate at the Dana Center at St. Anselm College.
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