How to Use previous in a Sentence

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• She has a child from a previous marriage.
• The two characters met in a previous chapter.
• That’s down one spot and 11 points from the previous week.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2023
• The save from Sarabia in the previous game is, Pyzdrowski believes, the best of the three.
  — Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
• In my two previous films there was a lot of nature and the forest.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
• This year is on track to more than double the previous record, which was last year.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
• That’s up $2 from the previous top-end Paramount+ package.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Skip to the next and previous photo by typing j/k or ←/→.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2023
• Mitchell has missed five of the previous six games because of a groin injury.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• The previous record of four has only been achieved by Harry Styles, Adele, and Blur.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2024
• Unlike the previous regime, the Chargers have stayed with the ground game, even though it’s appeared to be a slog at times.
  — Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
• But for this year's crop of new grads, finding work might not be as hard as in previous years.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 17 May 2023
• To find the full list of previous Powerball winners, click the link to the lottery's website.
  — Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
• To find the full list of previous Powerball winners, click the link to the lottery's website.
  — Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2024
• To find the full list of previous Powerball winners, click the link to the lottery's website.
  — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
• The hazy-for-days brew didn't have an easy path to the title by any means, taking on two previous champs in back-to-back weeks.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024
• Skip to the next and previous photo by typing j/k or ←/→.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2024
• The previous worst was sixth at the 2002 world championships.
  — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 24 Feb. 2023
• His building still holds the scars of previous wars and battles that Derna witnessed in the past decade.
  — Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• The teen had lost 55 pounds in the previous 18 months because of vomiting and stomach pain.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• At this point, though, the Dolphins haven’t been nearly good enough the previous two seasons.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2024
• None of his previous books had by then sold more than 5,000 copies in hardcover.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• His previous two books tried to cement the idea that Donald Trump is an asset of Vladimir Putin.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
• In the four previous reports, there was always an increase in deaths.
  — Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• In May, production rose 10% compared to the previous year to reach a record 27 terawatt hours.
  — William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
• But unlike the previous motions, this one was filed in the middle of trial.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 July 2024
• His debut full-length, Montero, came out the previous year.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2024
• For months when the first is on a weekend or holiday, the checks are sent out on the last business day of the previous month, according to the SSA.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2023
• The previous law also limited rentals to no more than two guests per stay.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2023
• These issues are usually fixed very quickly with a minor update, or by rolling back the update to a previous version that was running OK.
  — Davey Winder, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024