Wondering how to use Earlier in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as earliest or early.

Common word

Earlier in a sentence

Earlier | Earliest | Earlies

Earlier meaning

  1. comparative form of early: more early
  2. occurring previously

Synonyms of Earlier

earliest early before sooner in the beginning to begin with originally

Example sentences (20)

A 14-foot wooden cross at the Santiago Retreat Center in Silverado Canyon was cut down earlier this week.

I know they had an earlier discussion certainly and they had again proposed some even earlier aspirational date.

Christmas decorations and advent calendars are slowly making their way into shops earlier and earlier each year.

These changes were often much earlier before any of the other movement-related issues - sometimes even decades earlier.

It gets later and later, the season seem to get earlier and earlier and it’s really a challenge for everyone.

With Black Friday starting earlier and earlier every year it seems, that just means more and more people are out and about.

A 19-year-old man was accused of killing three men in Brighton Park earlier this month.

They've invested, as I said earlier, more than – I alluded to earlier, more than $38 million in CapEx over the last 12 months.

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KSG would be seen playing the role of Mr Bajaj, a business tycoon, which was earlier played by Ronit Roy in the earlier series.

Radchuk explains that when temperatures warm, plants flower earlier, and insects also develop earlier.

Have you ever thought to yourself the rush to holiday shopping comes earlier and earlier every year?

Ding, who is entirely innocent, reached the UK final earlier this season, and the Tour Championship semi-finals earlier this month.

I was more brazen in my earlier days of travel, and hypocritically complained about Japan with the very Muslim I referred to earlier.

Sarah, 36, said: 'Every year it feels like the build up to Christmas starts earlier and earlier.

Every year, Copeland said, title sponsor James Flynn (Your Southside Lawyer) starts getting ready earlier and earlier for the festival.

That’s not really a surprise; it’s been starting earlier and earlier for the last eight years.

The Indian Navy had earlier repatriated over 3,000 stranded Indians from Sri Lanka and the Maldives while making earlier port calls here.

Earlier this week, a woman was fatally shot and two others were shot and injured at the site; another migrant was there earlier this year.

For the unversed, Vicky Kaushal was earlier dating Television actress Harleen Sethi earlier.

ZunRoof had earlier raised funding in three earlier rounds from other individual investors.

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Common combinations with earlier

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • earlier this 73×
  • the earlier 28×
  • earlier and 15×
  • earlier in 14×
  • day earlier 11×
  • an earlier 10×
  • and earlier 10×
  • earlier than
  • had earlier
  • earlier the

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "earlier" in a sentence?
An example: "A 14-foot wooden cross at the Santiago Retreat Center in Silverado Canyon was cut down earlier this week." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "earlier" from real English texts.
What does "earlier" mean?
Earlier means: comparative form of early: more early
What are synonyms of "earlier"?
Common synonyms of "earlier" include: earliest, early, before, sooner, in the beginning, to begin with, originally.
How many example sentences with "earlier" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "earlier", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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