EARLY in a Sentence

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The boys bowed, shook hands and told Scarlett they'd be over at the Wilkeses' early in the morning, waiting for her.

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 Meanings and Examples of EARLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
early
 ad.  during the first part of a period of time
 a.  done before the expected time
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There was some hauling to be done at the lower end of the wood-lot, and Ethan was out early the next day.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  It was in the early morning stillness, when his muscles were swinging to their familiar task and his lungs expanding with long draughts of mountain air, that Ethan did his clearest thinking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  His first object was to reach Starkfield before Hale had started for his work; he knew the carpenter had a job down the Corbury road and was likely to leave his house early.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  The boys bowed, shook hands and told Scarlett they'd be over at the Wilkeses' early in the morning, waiting for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardy to survive among large ones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  America, in the early years of the century, had been kind to the Irish.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  Afternoon naps were a custom of the country and never were they so necessary as on the all-day parties, beginning early in the morning and culminating in a ball.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  There were no iron picket fences, iron summerhouses, iron gates or even iron statuary on the lawns of Atlanta now, for they had early found their way into the melting pots of the rolling mills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  For a young man cut off without a shilling in early youth, I've done very well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Fanny Elsing and the Bonnell girls, roused early from slumber, were yawning on the back seat and the Elsings' mammy sat grumpily on the box, a basket of freshly laundered bandages on her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  In the early morning hours before the noises of the town awoke, the cannon at Kennesaw Mountain could be heard faintly, far away, a low dim booming that might have passed for summer thunder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  By late afternoon the first news came, but it was uncertain, contradictory, frightening, brought as it was by men wounded in the early hours of the battle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  The old men and boys of the Home Guard marched by, the graybeards almost too weary to lift their feet, the boys wearing the faces of tired children, confronted too early with adult problems.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We had expected to arrive an hour late, but in the event we were early.
17  Nigel is carrying out research on early Christian art.
18  You must ask permission if you want to leave early.
19  Book early for the show to avoid disappointment.
20  I want to get there early to avoid the crowds.
21  I always do my shopping early to beat the rush.
22  She was forced to retire early from teaching because of ill health.
23  The prisoner was released early because of good conduct.
24  Early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
25  I go to bed early if I'm travelling the next day.
26  You promised me you'd be home early tonight.
27  I think I'll go to bed early tonight.
28  Patients were being discharged from the hospital too early.
29  His early training predisposed him to a life of adventure.
30  Our aim is the early detection and treatment of all cancers.