'earlier' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'earlier' with 20 example sentences.
- earlier adjective
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: (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early
- earlier adverb
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: earlier in time; previously
: comparatives of `soon' or `early'
: before now
Did you see the sunrise earlier? It was really beautiful.
For some reason the microphone didn't work earlier.
He arrived earlier than usual.
Why didn't you call me earlier?
Today we are closing earlier.
We should've come earlier.
They were here earlier, weren't they?
The meeting ended earlier than usual.
I wish you had told me this earlier.
The sun rises earlier in the summer.
I have to leave earlier today than usual.
Why didn't you tell me about that earlier?
One minute earlier, and they could have caught the bus.
These flowers bloom earlier than others do.
I got back home earlier than I thought I would.
Had I arrived earlier, I could have seen Kelly.
I wanted to finish this earlier.
I ate lunch earlier than you did.
I was thinking about you earlier today.
She wished she had been born twenty years earlier.