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

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

  • Through conversation Marlow discovers just how wanton Kurtz can be; how the natives worship him; and how very ill he has been of late.  - Heart of Darkness
  • Godzilla escapes the island just before it explodes.  - Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
  • By the end, Basil faints just at the mention of her name.  - Fawlty Towers
  • Other characters appeared from time to time for only one episode, often just visiting town.  - Four Feather Falls
  • Montag looks forward to these meetings, and just as he begins to expect them, Clarisse goes absent.  - Fahrenheit 451
  • He encounters his father, who has just returned home from work.  - The Metamorphosis
  • Disturbed by Alice's revelation, Bill is then called by the daughter of a patient who has just died.  - Eyes Wide Shut
  • He makes it to an escape pod, and lands in Manhattan just before Air Force One crashes, killing everyone else aboard.  - Escape from New York
  • Two young women arrive just in time to see him racing away from the corpse.  - Young and Innocent
  • In the first episode, players navigate a tunnel in the wall of a prison cell hidden behind a poster, just like in The Shawshank Redemption.  - Duke Nukem 3D
  • She wakes up screaming, Peter rushing to her side, realizing that it was just a dream.  - Dressed to Kill (1980 film)
  • Billy stabs himself with his knife; Julie arrives just in time for him to say his last words to her and die.  - Carousel (musical)
  • Amilyn hitches a ride on the hood of his van which crashes into a tree just before Amilyn loses an arm.  - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
  • Upon entering Sebastian's apartment, Deckard is ambushed by Pris, but he manages to kill her just as Roy returns.  - Blade Runner
  • The Klansmen, with Ben at their head, race in to save them just in time.  - The Birth of a Nation
  • Unfortunately, it turns out that Miles Gloriosus has just returned from Crete, where there is of course no actual plague.  - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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