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

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

  • Meanwhile, Boris is looking for Marija, for whom he has long had a hitherto hopeless desire.  - White Slaves (film)
  • This black sheep's uninvited appearance casts a pall over the hitherto raucous party.  - Manito (film)
  • A hitherto simpleton now turns a super hero.  - Puthiya Mukham
  • The friends, which had hitherto been invincible and inseparable, suddenly die in one day.  - The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin
  • However, not long after, Mary, hitherto blinded by cataracts, suddenly has her sight restored.  - Magnus (novel)
  • Venus arrives in a fury, however, and breaks the hitherto musical atmosphere of the prologue.  - Psyché (play)
  • They trace the epicenter of the pending disaster to an area beneath the Carlsbad Caverns and descend to a hitherto unexplored level.  - The Night the World Exploded
  • The introduction of the brash, loud, motorbike-riding Nanjunda, infuses enthusiasm into a hitherto hurried and jarring narrative.  - Edakallu Guddada Mele
  • On his deathbed Lord Marchmain, hitherto an atheist, regains his faith and dies reconciled to the Roman Catholic Church.  - Brideshead Revisited (film)
  • She learns that she is to be reassigned; a possibility not hitherto considered.  - Gossamer (novel)
  • The hitherto smug Kajri suddenly feels threatened by the arrival of a new woman in her husband's life.  - Achhut Kannya
  • Inder Lal is worried that their hitherto innocent relationship will be perceived as sexual.  - Heat and Dust (film)
  • From its story he manages to figure out the Groalterri's hitherto unknown injury and arrange surgery that will change its life.  - The Genocidal Healer
  • He discovers a world hitherto unknown to him, where the sun does not rise and the ground is covered with cold, white, wet powder.  - Moominland Midwinter
  • Fury and his Ultimates track down the Xavier Mansion, whose location was hitherto unknown, and find it empty, the X-Men having relocated.  - Ultimate War
  • The hitherto virtuous Lady Brute is provoked to infidelity by her sour, sottish husband.  - The Provoked Wife

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