How to use "earlier" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "earlier" in popular movie and book plots

  • The Man remembers the two bundles of reeds he placed in the boat earlier and ties the bundles around the Wife.  - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • The Sherpa porters accompanying them were earlier swept away by an avalanche, triggered by one of them who carelessly fires a handgun.  - Lost Horizon (1937 film)
  • However, before she can inform Dan, Armand shows up at her apartment to discuss Jerry's earlier interruption of Lucy's singing recital.  - The Awful Truth
  • Years earlier in Paris, a grisette named Fantine was very much in love with Félix Tholomyès.  - Les Misérables
  • While in combat, Alita awakens memories of her earlier life on Mars.  - Battle Angel Alita
  • Gillian, remembering Ben's earlier suggestion, conveys Smith to Jubal Harshaw, a famous author who is also a physician and a lawyer.  - Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Auron, who had earlier been revealed to be unsent, goes to the Farplane.  - Final Fantasy X
  • She calmly accepts, having earlier concluded that he and some other woman are in love.  - Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)
  • Cliegg tells Anakin that Shmi was abducted by Tusken Raiders weeks earlier and is likely dead.  - Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
  • Blackie agrees, but their reunion is soon interrupted by Burley, who had earlier proclaimed his love for Mary and proposed to her.  - San Francisco (1936 film)
  • Stanley later questions Blanche about her earlier marriage.  - A Streetcar Named Desire
  • The twelve hours gained earlier are lost, but Fogg shows no regret.  - Around the World in Eighty Days
  • He then rams his head into the mirror and, while laughing maniacally, repeatedly mocks his earlier question about Annie's condition.  - Twin Peaks
  • The whipped woman from an earlier vignette appears alone in an autoerotic session.  - Glen or Glenda
  • As shown in flash-forwards earlier in the series, the next several years include the reign of Londo Mollari as Centauri Emperor.  - Babylon 5
  • An element of the earlier myth made Actaeon the familiar hunting companion of Artemis, no stranger.  - Actaeon

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