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Example sentences for: hitherto

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By 1500, Melaka had become the leading port in Southeast Asia, drawing Chinese, Indian, Javanese, and Arab merchants away from the hitherto vital port of Pasai in Sumatra.
The addition of this important facility shifted the center of communications in the colony, prompting authorities to transfer the capital from St. George’s to the hitherto undistinguished village of Hamilton.
His men crushed sultan Ibrahim’s 50,000 with cannons, hitherto unknown in India, at Panipat, north of Delhi.
Ginny, for example, could turn into a knockout in Book 5, when she should be 14 or so, winning--too late--the hitherto impermeable heart of Potter, then extracting just revenge by scorning him utterly, sending him off on a quixotic love-quest just when he's most needed to save the world.
(Now that Geraldine Laybourne has started Oxygen, a cable channel for women, the networks fear that the hitherto male world of cable could start stealing their loyal female viewers.)