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• Oota ma coupon afore ah gies y' the malky, ya bam.From the entry malky
• Ain't like dyin' is some newfanglement nobody ever heard nothin' 'bout afore.2014, Donald McCaig, Ruth's Journey. From the entry newfanglement
• The old blue one were good enough for Miss Charley and Miss Melissa afore today.”2013, Amanda Scott, Dangerous Illusions. From the entry drearsome
• Said he knows how Jack hates to burn daylight—so he'll be here afore you pull out.2010, Terry C. Johnston, Crack in the Sky: A Novel, page 267. From the entry burn daylight
• I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got?1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows. From the entry tol
• Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 175. From the entry head
• Afore me is a mild protestation, — a sort of oath, or oathlet.1908, Henry Norman Hudson, Romeo and Juliet, page 117. From the entry oathlet
• It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow.2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), set in Maine, United States…. From the entry westerly
• "No," she replied, coolly, "and I shall want my dinner dreadful bad afore I get it, I know.2015, Hesba Stretton, Jessica's first prayer: A Christian Fiction of Hesba Stretton. From the entry dreadful
• It'll be near two hours afore I head back.2013, Anola Pickett, Whisper Island, →ISBN. From the entry slick cam
• "Yes, I knowed Robert Fraley all right; a right nice sort of feller he useta be afore he made his pile.2013, Grace Livingston Hill, Ladybird, Barbour Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry useta
• I've mended many a shoe fer him in his younger days afore he got up in the world."2013, Grace Livingston Hill, Ladybird, Barbour Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry useta
• Father vos a dustie; – vos at it all his life, and grandfather afore him for I can't tell how long.2011, R. E. Pritchard, Dickens's England: Life in Victorian Times, page 178. From the entry dustie
• Could be it gets worse afore it gets better."2008 October 1, Julian Stockwin, Admiral's Daughter, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 249. From the entry blashy
• Lively now, afore it gits out th' scuppers."1923 April 7, [Aylward Edward] Dingle, “The Spouter. Chapter VIII.”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 195, number 41, Philadelphia…. From the entry squeegee
• Shucks, I didn't want fer them furriners to downface me and, sartin sure, didn't want my kinspeople to be shamed afore them.1958, June E. Reed, Jest Olga, page 13. From the entry downface
• He was a timidsome sort of man and Jinnie had to call sharp 'afore he come out, but come he did, all of a tremble.1913, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson, The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. From the entry timidsome
• Ye see, I think I done ye a bad turn onst, an′ I′m minded t′ do ye right afore I goes off.1909, National Magazine, volume 30, page 171. From the entry matey
• "Throw a couple of turf and a junt of fir on the fire, Dinny, a thaisge, afore ye sit down," he said.1903, Seumas MacManus, A Lad of the O'Friels, page 43. From the entry junt
• Nah, I reckon it's all one of those mass testeria thingies, where someone starts saying they're not seeing owt, and then afore you know it we've lost the wotsit.2003 September 26, oiorpata, “Re: poor bloke”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), message-ID <qm39nvc9ol2g4t0jg18ers6qgfljatqner@4ax.com>. From the entry wotsit
• Palsgrave says of re, "and as for re is never used alone but in composition as I have afore sayd in the LII chapter of the first boke".1999, Brett David Wells, The Learned Vernacular. From the entry withspeak
• He was wearing jeans and a blue shirt too, but they wasn't all begaumed, the shirt had been clean afore he sweated it out clumbing up the hill.1963, Dorothy B. Hughes, “The Granny Woman”, in Gamma, volume 1, number 2, page 5. From the entry begaum
• Afore night 'twur the talk o' all the parish, an' folk did run in an' out all day long for a week to look at un.1904, The Living Age, volume 242. From the entry papern

Meaning of afore

1. adverb Before, temporally.
2. adverb Before, in front, spatially.
3. adverb In the fore part of a ship.

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How do you use afore in a sentence?

Afore is used as an adverb, preposition and conjunction. For example: “Oota ma coupon afore ah gies y' the malky, ya bam.”

What is a short sentence with afore?

“It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow.”

What does afore mean?

Afore means before, temporally.