Example sentences for: heretofore

How can you use “heretofore” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There will always be some other Web site offering consumers a better deal than Amazon--get a free PC with the purchase of your next book!--and the Web allows consumers something that has heretofore existed only in economics textbooks: "perfect knowledge"--the ability to know every price that exists for the good you want to buy.

  • The cuts the governors complained about were the elimination of benefits to legal immigrants, who heretofore have been treated pretty much the same as citizens with regard to welfare benefits.

  • Both papers report that one factor was the publication in the Israeli press last week of the working paper for the talks, which displeased Syria by revealing some of its heretofore unpublicized concessions, such as allowing some sort of Israeli intelligence ground station to remain in the Golan Heights and endorsing the exchange of ambassadors and the opening of borders.

  • That's the cue for what in movies is called a "conversion narrative," in which a heretofore lost soul pursues a seemingly lost cause--and, inevitably, finds redemption.

  • The accident is the sudden collapse of Dunlap's heretofore much praised turnaround effort at Sunbeam, a company that always had one of America's most enduring brand names but, before Dunlap, had very little idea of what to do with it.


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