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US
/ˈðɛn/
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[ UK /ðˈɛn/ ]
[ UK /ðˈɛn/ ]
ADVERB
-
at that time
science as it was then taught
prices were lower back then
I was young then -
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
we watched the late movie and then went to bed
go left first, then right
then he left
first came lightning, then thunder
and so home and to bed -
in that case or as a consequence
then you'll be rich
if he didn't take it, then who did?
you've made up your mind then?
the case, then, is closed
keep it then if you want to
ADJECTIVE
-
at a specific prior time
the then president
NOUN
-
that time; that moment
we were friends from then on
we will arrive before then
How To Use then In A Sentence
- 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
- But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.
- Then there are the PIP implant problems that thousands of women have had to contend with. The Sun
- You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
- In her house apron and with her hair a little ruffled she looked younger, startled and then angry. THE WHITE DOVE
- So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
- Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
- Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
- She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
- Divide half the mixture between 4 glass bowls, then sprinkle with a few fresh raspberries and a bit more crushed honeycomb. The Sun