Example sentences for: hitherto

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

  • This strategy resulted in the identification of the murine orthologues of EVER1 and EVER2, and four hitherto uncharacterized human and mouse proteins (Figure 1, Table 1).

  • 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.

  • Oxford just throws up its hands and cries “Derivation unknown,” adding, “None of the etymological conjectures hitherto offered are compatible with the sense-history.”

  • In other words, although the opportunity was there for borrowing on a larger scale and with a degree of comprehensiveness that had not been achieved hitherto, it has not been taken.

  • A commentary in the Jakarta Post warned that Australia's leadership of the peacekeeping force could destroy the hitherto close relationship between Australia and Indonesia.


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