no sooner

idiom

—used to emphasize the short time in which something happens

I had no sooner walked through the door when the phone rang.

No sooner did I walk through the door than the phone rang.

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But no sooner do some of the elephants start to head back toward the park than others break off in the opposite direction. —

Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024 The next time Americans will see astronauts on the moon will now be no sooner than 2027, after NASA announced further delays to its Artemis program on Thursday. —

Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024 The incentive will kick off no sooner than 2026 because the budget for 2025 has already been voted. —

Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024 With the iPhone range rumored to be getting an under-display Face ID camera no sooner than 2026, Google could upstage Apple’s finest with a notchless facial biometrics system that works as well as the current iPhone implementation. —

Davey Winder, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for no sooner