sooner

IPA: sˈunɝ

(informal) A native or resident of the American state of Oklahoma
(collegiate sports) A competitor representing the University of Oklahoma.
(historical) One who crossed into Indian territory before the official opening of settlement in the Oklahoma land rush, in order to obtain land sooner.

Examples of "sooner" in Sentences

He may be forced to get used to the term sooner rather than later.
Dhabi-based owners to challenge for the title sooner rather than later.
But, if the rumours have a trend, the trend is: 1. Klein will be gone sooner than later emphasis on *sooner*.
Getting it in sooner is ideal, but the rainy season can be quirky and no one knows this better than the farmers.
Everyone gets a nickname sooner or later in Mexico, and Thia’s already been given one by the night shift: La Luz—“the Light.”
Ah, young gentleman, said Mr. Deane, with that tendency to repress youthful hopes which stout and successful men of fifty find one of their easiest duties, thats sooner said than done, sooner said than done.
But in the forenoon, while Fanny after breakfast took a nap, I snatched an opportunity to cross-question Mrs. Physick, from whom I knew I could sooner or later obtain all she knew, -- the _sooner_ it would be, if she had anything good to tell; as, in my inexperience, I was almost sure she must have.