How to Use heretofore in a Sentence

heretofore

adverb

• Heretofore her writing has never displayed such depth of feeling.
• This technology has created heretofore unimaginable possibilities.
• The call-up means the war will enter the homes of most Russians in a way that Mr. Putin has heretofore avoided.
  — Adrian Karatnycky, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
• For the right team, one of these heretofore anonymous arms surely will be the piece that turns a good team into a great one.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 10 July 2019
• A bigger one is seeing a great work of art by an artist heretofore unknown to you.
  — Peter Plagens, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2017
• The Rise of Skywalker even brings back Luke’s lightsaber and throws in Leia’s heretofore unseen lightsaber for good measure.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
• Thor then learns his heretofore unknown sister, Hela, the goddess of death, plans to take over Asgard.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• That put the Spurs ahead by 20 over heretofore hapless Oklahoma City.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Nov. 2022
• Ryan Braun, heretofore the face of the franchise and about to cede that title to Yelich, needed just one more pitch to win it, a shot to left that gave the Brewers a stunning 5-4 win.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2021
• The first thing that strikes you about this new piece of technology is the color, black, a hue heretofore absent from the toothbrush realms.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 12 Nov. 2013
• Even the heretofore more solitary arts now bend toward the communal.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• Spadoni wore a shirt printed with Chase’s smiling face, which New Orleans will heretofore have to get along without.
  — Doug MacCash, nola.com, 13 June 2019
• One of the clowns, a teen-age girl waddling about in a penguin suit, produced a hula hoop, a device heretofore unknown in Al-Hol.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Now, though, the heretofore casual piece has received a big-night-out makeover thanks to Bella Hadid.
  — Alexandra Gurvitch, Vogue, 23 May 2018
• The cramped two rooms sit on the museum’s top floor, giving a glimpse into the lives of a migrant group heretofore unseen on its premises.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2024
• Not bad for a 19-minute set from a heretofore underrated and unheard-of comic.
  — Jason Johnson, The Root, 4 May 2018
• The world is in crisis, beset by challenges heretofore unseen.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 15 May 2020
• But after the safety against the Browns, Donald did something heretofore not seen: Donald, arm around Turner’s shoulder, skipped out of the end zone.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• In the film’s climax, Nixon — who has heretofore taken manly pride in never crying — kneels with Henry Kissinger and prays.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
• No, a third, the heretofore unknown offspring of a youth spent in drunken philandering.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
• Republicans have heretofore been caught in a trap with regard to Trump’s election lies.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• Men and women who heretofore have jeered such exhibitions of brawn and muscle were eager to see the contest.
  — al, 22 Nov. 2021
• But the past few years have seen heretofore unimaginable events, from the pandemic to the Capitol riot, in quick succession.
  — Amos Barshad, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2022
• The choice of the Captain Cook as the structure of the project was daring, too, since the collection has heretofore not been offered in such clearly feminine attire.
  — Nancy Olson, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• There will be an immense inspection of the self-driving cars arena in a manner that heretofore has not taken place.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• The scientists believe that the cat is part of a heretofore unknown species that could have originated in Africa or the Middle East thousands of years ago.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 19 June 2019
• While heretofore unseen at the federal level, a retroactive income tax hike, a large one at that, is not without precedent in the states.
  — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• The role offered White a wicked, witty turnabout on her heretofore warm-and-bubbly TV image while broadening the range of roles she was offered in years to come.
  — Gene Seymour, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021
• Sunshine and exercise are great and all, but one of the joys of the season is that some of those heretofore indoor activities can be taken to the outside world.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 May 2018
• As the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant foresaw in the late eighteenth century, the result has been a seemingly perpetual peace heretofore unknown to Europe.
  — Henry Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024