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How to use afore in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
It's all been done before by Nature or those who came afore.
The stream is murky and my eyes are not so keen as they were ages afore.
A human being's evident fear is that he should die afore his time.
Rebecca, did the dinosaurs come afore man, or at the same time?
O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!
We a' ken that there's tongues in heads, but I ne'er heard o' ony in hats or bauchles afore.
Sir Launcelot put his shield afore him, and put the stroke away of the one giant, and with his sword he clave his head asunder.
The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.
I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.
Al my other goodes afore not bewitted, my dettes paide, and my legacy fulfilled, I gyve and witto to my sones Roberte Bulmer and John Bulmer, whome I make my executors.
If he have never drunk wine afore, it will go near to remove his fit.
I've had a Chinky, a Chic Murray and, afore ye came tae collect me, I had some fancy Italian pasta dish. It was pure dead brilliant, by the way!
Examples from Classical Literature
If she gets afloat afore I come back you honk and holler and I'll row after you.
I was considerable of a bully myself afore Betsy got me on the parson's books.
Troth, and I've had a bashing once afore, and what I've had once I can do with agin.
And afore him he saw a long bridge, and three pavilions stood thereon, of silk and sendal of divers hue.
Why, kier, seems to me you ain't very perlite to leave the table afore anybody else does.
Said afore 'twas done he was so leaky with spear holes that he cast a shadder like a skimmer.
It got 'most dinner time and he had an appetite that he hadn't had afore for months.
But it's best to settle afore commencing, and then we needn't have no heartburning.
I've seen a bust-up on a railway afore, but bless me if this wasn't the wildest I ever seed.
And not a man of us, if His Reverence'll excuse me for saying so, dare let out a cuss afore her.
Guess you never see no hens like them afore, chuckled the lobsterman as he rowed away.
Bless yer soul, D'rindy, they hed a hole ez big ez that thar piggin, afore I thunk ennything 'bout'n it.
Seems to me they told me that Susanna's name was Samuels afore she married Brackett.
Spite of all that, I might refuse to unspeak my words, which I never did afore, if it had not been that I wronged the man.
She kin go 'er fifty knots, an'll be orf like a rigger afore we gits anywheres near 'er.
An' WHA' kens but it micht jist be stan'in' afore Him, i' the very get that He meant to gang.
And d'ye think I didn't see Mr. whitecap going down, afore ye thought o' a row yerself?
I ken by her WY o' carryin' hersel 'at she never had a jacket like that afore.
She'd been treated like a plaything afore he got her and he treated her that way till he died.
For there's something waur noo, and has been for some time, than ever was there afore!
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