How to Use early in a Sentence
- Early in his career he moved to the city.
- They were trailing by a touchdown early in the fourth quarter.
- She arrived early to help with the preparations.
- I got up early to finish packing.
- The package should be arriving early next week.
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The small room wrote 10 episodes and the show got the greenlight and premiered earlier this year.
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Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
31 May 2023
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Ford shares made gains early in the day, but slipped slightly into the red by the close.
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WSJ,
15 Sep. 2023
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Just be sure to arrive early—the shop is known to sell out.
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Vicki Salemi,
Chron,
23 Apr. 2023
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It is done early in the morning, and the stalks are set out to dry in the sun for days or weeks, then picked for braiding.
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Javier E. Piñero,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 May 2023
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The Detroit Red Wings were late to arrive, and then lost one of their best players early in the game.
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Detroit Free Press,
15 Jan. 2024
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A little snow produces a quick coating early in the day.
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Ian Livingston,
Washington Post,
15 Jan. 2024
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Only a few days earlier, Dobbs joined the team via a trade with the Cardinals.
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Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Nov. 2023
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If the Wildcats exit early this March, there could be real pressure on Lloyd in the spring of 2025.
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Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2024
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Some of these buildings were built as early as the 1940s, and there’s little money for repairs.
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Andrew Brinker,
BostonGlobe.com,
17 May 2023
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All of those bills died earlier this session, Kotek said.
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Hillary Borrud | ,
oregonlive,
31 May 2023
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The Club poll, which was released earlier this week, still has Beshear under 50.
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Eden Villalovas,
Washington Examiner,
6 Oct. 2023
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The House will now take a full vote on the legislation, which is set to happen as early as Wednesday.
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Rachel Looker,
USA TODAY,
31 May 2023
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Prince William has been patron of the charity since early in his public life.
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Simon Perry,
Peoplemag,
15 Sep. 2023
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Gardner awkwardly enters the wide shot early for the LFNY.
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Andy Hoglund,
EW.com,
7 Apr. 2024
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Fergie sent her own well-wishes to the King in a post shared on Instagram earlier this month.
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Kirsty Hatcher,
Peoplemag,
20 Feb. 2024
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Taylor’s dad, Scott, also wore the sweatshirt at a Chiefs game earlier this month.
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Julia Moore,
Peoplemag,
29 Dec. 2023
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Pi, meanwhile, won five Olivier Awards and, earlier this year, three Tonys.
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Borys Kit,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Sep. 2023
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The Corps says the study, which must be finished before construction on the project can begin, should be complete late this year or early the next.
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Josh Snyder,
Arkansas Online,
12 June 2023
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Come early to pop into the Finnish sauna or 15-meter-long pool and stay cozy for as long as possible ensconced in one of the hanging chairs.
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Alia Akkam,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 Mar. 2024
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Nathan Mensah worked out for the Portland Trail Blazers earlier this week.
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Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 May 2023
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Musgraves announced the album earlier this month along with sharing the title-track as the first single.
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Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
20 Feb. 2024
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The family woke up early to watch Ohtani’s Angels games, broadcast during the morning in Japan.
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Teresa Watanabe,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Dec. 2023
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The sun bore down on the red-brick building, which from the front showed little evidence of the violence that had transpired less than two hours earlier.
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Lauren Lumpkin,
Washington Post,
17 May 2023
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Luxury real estate deals started to slump in the third quarter of 2023 compared to earlier in the year.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
3 Jan. 2024
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The incident took place after the singer had performed four back-to-back concerts in Sydney that week and three shows in Melbourne earlier that month.
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Nardine Saad,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2024
- The early part of the book is better than the later part.
- We had an early spring this year.
- We're early. The show doesn't start for half an hour.
- I've always been an early riser.
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The early line on the game favored Ohio State by 2.5 points.
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Andrew Gillis,
cleveland,
16 Sep. 2023
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The restaurant will take over the former home of The Bard's Town, which closed in early 2023.
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Amanda Hancock,
The Courier-Journal,
4 Jan. 2024
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One of the main themes is love and romance, and a guy in his early 30s trying to find the one.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
1 June 2023
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There were transit cops for a minute too, but in the late 80s or early 90s the city dropped them.
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Jonathan Rowe,
SPIN,
31 Oct. 2023
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There are early deals on lots of great products right now.
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Jessica Kasparian,
SELF,
24 Nov. 2023
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That was the most prophetic show of the early 21st century.
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Mikey O'Connell,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Feb. 2024
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In the three decades since its heyday, in the late eighties and early nineties, the term has grown to seem a bit old-fashioned.
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Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2023
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As the early praise for the rookies continues, the list of building blocks for the future grows.
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Nicole Yang,
BostonGlobe.com,
16 Sep. 2023
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The pair initially met as child models in the early ‘90s, when Rivera was just 4, per E!
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Jamie Ballard,
Peoplemag,
20 Aug. 2023
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The other woman alleged Combs and singer Aaron Hall took turns raping her and her friend in the early Nineties.
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Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2024
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Vacant storefronts and restaurants began to find new life as clubs in the ‘80s and early ‘90s.
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Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
21 Feb. 2024
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The injury slowed his early progress, opening the door for Moss to seize the backup quarterback job outright in the spring.
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Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Dec. 2023
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How do young women today make sense of your early life?
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Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
16 Mar. 2024
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The 24-hour vigil recreates early visitors’ 24 hours in the cave.
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Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Mar. 2024
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That’s up from a post-pandemic high of just over 50% in early June but above the 43% recorded in the same period a year ago.
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Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN,
4 Sep. 2023
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Much like Dexter and Weeds, the earlier seasons of Shameless are the most astute.
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Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
17 May 2023
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Cather’s late work, like the early work, wrestled with death and ambition and longing.
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Jeff MacGregor,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 June 2023
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The hope now is that the Fed could start in June after traders shelved earlier expectations for March.
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Zimo Zhong,
Quartz,
4 Mar. 2024
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In the early 2000s, Gleicher moved his practice full-time from Chicago to New York.
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Yeganeh Torbati,
Washington Post,
30 July 2023
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One of the many poignant aspects of Nick’s early death is that his friends have carried a lifelong sense of regret and even self-reproach.
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Lily Moayeri,
SPIN,
18 Dec. 2023
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In Denmark the drinking culture is heavy, and the next step is to experiment with drugs from an early age.
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Annika Pham,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2024
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Tell me about learning the material and the early rehearsals.
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2023
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Too early to care There’s plenty to keep investors occupied at the moment: When will the Fed lower the base rate?
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Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2024
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With the early exit — scores of fans among the huge crowd had probably not even found their seats yet — came the obvious question.
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Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Oct. 2023
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As much as any of the early players in hip-hop, Combs mainstreamed the money that came out of a new kind of music and the culture that surrounded it.
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Robin Givhan,
Washington Post,
28 Mar. 2024
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This upheaval is something millennials will be familiar with—many of them were early in their careers when the financial crisis of 2008 hit.
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Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
9 Apr. 2024
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