How to use hitherto in a sentence

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• Open up vistas of expansion into hitherto untapped markets.From the entry vista
• This mystery has vexed us all hitherto; perhaps you will be able to shed light upon the matter, Inspector.From the entry shed light upon
• Hitherto, up-gunning British tanks had been prevented because of a basic design parameter.2001, David French, Raising Churchill's Army. From the entry up-gun
• An intelligent Socialist movement will use their patriotism, instead of merely insulting it, as hitherto.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III. From the entry socialist
• History shows that no Indo-Pacific island has hitherto been able to survive without foreign intervention.1933 May, George Gerhard, “Philippine Independence”, in North American Review, volume CCXXXV, number 5, New York, →OCLC, page 449. From the entry Indo-Pacific
• For in him the dandiacal temper had been absolute hitherto, quite untainted and unruffled.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson. From the entry dandiacal
• In my amors I had hitherto found no intellectual equality or sympathies.1905, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Selection in Man, page 240. From the entry amor
• It has never, if my search-fu is any good, hitherto appeared in the pages of the National Post.2018 March 22, Colby Cosh, “Former area man receives one million dollars for mathematical awesomeness”, in National Post. From the entry search-fu
• This book takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the so-called minor genres of African orature—riddles.2015 April, Akíntúndé Akínyẹmí, “Introduction”, in Orature and Yorùbá Riddles, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry orature
• These carotenoids, except for 3'-epilutein, have hitherto been found in few species and only on the Japanese islands.1999, Folia Biologica (volume 47, numbers 3-4, page 68). From the entry parasiloxanthin
• Some by reason of their sumptuous apparelment learned so great pride that hitherto they could not shift it from them.1991, Archive for Reformation History, page 299. From the entry apparelment
• The crew struck the set with a ferocity hitherto unseen, an army more valiant in retreat than advance.1979, Texas Monthly, volume 7, number 8, page 109. From the entry strike
• Even if a lactant has taken a poison, it will, as the hitherto literature shows, scarcely be excreted into her milk.1950, The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, page 251. From the entry lactant
• Hitherto the Arctic żone has been ice-creamless.1927 January 2, L.H.R., “Old Year Completes Job and Hobbies Hence”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry ice-creamless
• Thunderous roars warned us that the whole ice-shelf had entered a hyperactive phase, causing hitherto safe snow-bridges to collapse all around us into their crevasses.2009, Ranulph Fiennes, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, →ISBN. From the entry ice-shelf
• Nevertheless, Rangers, hitherto wary of compromising any Champions League involvement, have now performed a handbrake turn and come out in support of such an arrangement.2006, Gary Oliver, “Eurovision”, in Power, Corruption and Pies, volume 2, WSC Books Limited, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry handbrake turn
• His first outside hire wasn't an electronics whiz or a mechanical mastermind, but a young industrial designer, a creature hitherto unknown at DEKA.2003, Steve Kemper, chapter 2, in Code Name Ginger: the Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry mastermind
• Owners and sponsors of the drive-ins feel that in three-quarters of their patrons they have tapped a practically prehistoric strain of human—the hitherto non-movie-goer.1975, David Manning White, Popular Culture, page 154. From the entry drive-in
• Three hitherto unknown figures and other fragments from the Nike Balustrade found in the apothekes of the Museum are being published by I.1953, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 73, page 3. From the entry apotheke
• It was the draft of the law, subsequently Draconically imposed, forbidding abortion, which had hitherto been permitted under official auspices in cases not considered dangerous.1951 April, F. Beck [pseudonym], W. Godin [pseudonym], translated by Eric Mosbacher and David Porter, “The Iron Commissar”, in Russian…. From the entry draconically
• More: he now yearned as avidly for this submergedness, this union of all things living, as he had hitherto shrunk from it.1930, Henry Handel Richardson, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, The Text Publishing Company, published 2012, page 837. From the entry submergedness
• Hitherto I have lived a great deal too much apart from my sisters, partly from indolence, and partly from my unfrank disposition.1926, Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship, published 1979, page 72. From the entry unfrank
• As far as it is discernible from the available literature, methodological investigations of isogramy have hitherto relied on introspection and manual searches of sources such as dictionaries and atlases.2017 January 1, Florian Breit, “The Distribution of English Isograms in Google Ngrams and the British National Corpus”, in Bangor…. From the entry isogramy
• Pants down gags are as loud and lively as fart jokes, but willy waving in a restaurant kitchen is a whole new area of squirmage, hitherto unexplored.c. 2005, Angus Wolfe Murray, Waiting… review, Eye for Film. From the entry squirmage
• Why should that singing horse commonly called the nightingale, or that climbing horse hitherto known as the cat, fall down and worship you because of your horsehood?1916, G.K. Chesterton, The Crimes of England. From the entry horsehood
• Boadicea seemed to be hesitating for a moment, whilst Sir Baldwin remained coldly neutral, determined not to interfere again in women's affairs; his interference not having succeeded overwell hitherto.1912, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Meadowsweet, page 304. From the entry overwell
• This would involve ridding ourselves of a residual colonial consciousness, even at the subliminal level, and revising our perception of the vernacular idiom and local accents, hitherto regarded as non-pukka.1999, K[hiam] K[eong] Seet, “Singapore Drama and Theatre in English”, in Chua Beng Huat, editor, Singapore Studies II: Critical Surveys of…. From the entry pukka
• A huge and hitherto unsuspected wealth of mineral substances was ready to come out of the deep-lying rocks and refresh the rather limited and jaded resources of the contemporary soil.1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Keying Up the Planet”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry deep-lying
• It was about this time that the first experiments were made (in Germany) with basic slag, a material which had hitherto been regarded as a worthless by-product of steel manufacture.1911, “History of English Agriculture”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. From the entry by-product

Meaning of hitherto

1. adverb Up to this or that time.
2. adverb Up to this place.
3. adverb In speech or writing: up to this point; thus far.

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Questions about hitherto in a sentence

How do you use hitherto in a sentence?

Hitherto is used as an adverb and adjective. For example: “Open up vistas of expansion into hitherto untapped markets.”

What is a short sentence with hitherto?

“Hitherto the Arctic żone has been ice-creamless.”

What does hitherto mean?

Hitherto means up to this or that time.