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UK
/bɪfˈɔː/
]
[ US /ˌbiˈfɔɹ, bɪˈfɔɹ/ ]
[ US /ˌbiˈfɔɹ, bɪˈfɔɹ/ ]
ADVERB
-
at or in the front
the road ahead is foggy
we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front
with the cross of Jesus marching on before
I see the lights of a town ahead
staring straight ahead -
earlier in time; previously
I mentioned that problem earlier
as I said before
he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier
her parents had died four years earlier
I had known her before
How To Use before In A Sentence
- Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
- Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
- Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
- When Modin scored from the right circle to make it 3-0, it looked bleak for the Devils, who rallied from one-goal deficits twice before winning Game 2 in overtime. USATODAY.com - Tampa Bay creeps closer to New Jersey with 4-3 win
- Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
- Police are anxious to trace two men seen leaving the house just before 8am.
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
- Two more debates are scheduled in the coming weeks, one debate dealing with education and health will be held in Irbid next week and the final week before elections the southern city of Karak will witness a candidates debate on agriculture and development. Daoud Kuttab: Jordanian Candidate Uses Debate to Call for Curtailing King's Powers
- We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
- Moreover, it is expressly added that if the day before the Passover falls on a Sabbath, one may in this manner purchase a Paschal lamb, and, presumably, all else that is needful for the feast.