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UK
/sˈuːn/
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[ US /ˈsun/ ]
[ US /ˈsun/ ]
ADVERB
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in the near future
we should have news before long
the doctor will soon be here
she will arrive presently
the book will appear shortly
How To Use soon In A Sentence
- Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
- It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
- Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany. The Cryptogram A Novel
- Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish. The Christian Home
- They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
- As soon as everyone stopped laughing, they noticed a few baby cradles at the other side of the room.
- Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea. Edison, His Life and Inventions
- It is touch and go whether the pair will face each other again soon. Times, Sunday Times
- Soon the seeds in the inflated seed cases of the yellow rattle will be hard and rattle at a brush.
- Numerous small contributions soon bulk up into a considerable sum.