How to Use hitherto in a Sentence

hitherto

adverb

• Norm, frankly, has had enough of all this weirdness and hacks the overseer’s terminal to send a message to the hitherto unseen overseer of Vault 31.
  — Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
• The scan probed hitherto unseen wounds in the back, shoulder blade and rib cage.
  — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• And that’s why the non-unicorns out there might just be the best bet to take your team to hitherto unimagined heights.
  — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Mr Xi has amassed enough clout to push through reforms that have hitherto proved tricky.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• In just 12 months, this hitherto unknown app has become one of the go-to places for shoppers who want to get the most bang for their buck.
  — Molly Peck, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
• No class appears to be stirred so deeply as the great middle class, the real strength of the country and the hitherto solid prop of the monarchy.
  — Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2023
• In the pivotal Game 5, the Yankees socked their hitherto nemesis for four runs in 4 2/3 innings.
  — Brian Costa, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
• Bella is back in London and is to marry Max, and her ex-husband Alfie, hitherto unknown, turns up at the wedding to claim her.
  — Tony McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• And while Johnson has hitherto been happy to tear up the norms of British political life, this is a tradition that will suit him very well.
  — Matt Wells, CNN, 28 Aug. 2019
• In terms of story, the new season aims for a larger narrative scope hitherto unseen in previous outings of the show.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• Trump, his allies, and his kin are guilty of degrading the language of government and politics to a hitherto unplumbed low.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 5 June 2018
• The camera, hitherto so calm, picks up speed, travelling beside him down the avenue, under falling snow.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• Their food, hitherto held in high esteem, plunged in prestige in direct proportion to the influx of immigrants.
  — Joshua David Stein, Town & Country, 13 July 2017
• The lack of clarity over who, if anybody, will win and lose in the new pension system has opened a door for Mr. Macron’s hitherto weak political opposition and for the unions.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2019
• New neural pathways, like lights on a grid, all switched on at once, an entire ecosystem, hitherto unknown, there to be discovered and ridden.
  — Abigail Rasminsky, Longreads, 8 Jan. 2018
• Some believe Smenkhkare may have been a brother to Tutankhamen or a hitherto unknown co-regent with Akhenaten.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
• Tacón, however, might think differently as this weekend is the start of a whole new chapter in their hitherto very short history.
  — SI.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• The stars also hold the film steady and emotionally credible when a hitherto sturdy screenplay, by the novice directors, makes some wild, wayward plotting moves in the home stretch.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
• By 1985, in one of the crueler ironies of the century, gay men had learned that the liberation of the libido, the casting-off of eons-old shame, had exposed them to an implacable, hitherto unknown virus.
  — Michael Cunningham, New York Times, 25 June 2018
• But more plantations are springing up while Kampot quality is rated as high as ever and hitherto slack markets, like the United States, are getting hooked on the spice.
  — Denis D. Gray, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2017
• With the Italian's hitherto unerring spirit cracked, Jairzinho finished them off with a far less exquisite bumbling finish off his knee, after Pele knocked down a route one lob into the box.
  — SI.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• Maybe a hitherto brutal dictator is looking for the survival strategy that Mr. Trump has offered.
  — Tony Abbott, WSJ, 13 July 2018
• That troubling scene gives way to one set in an office, where, having prevailed over a man to win her job, the hitherto-sympathetic Marlene seems to be emulating some of the worst aspects of male behavior.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• There appears to be an acrostic that has been hitherto unremarked upon and that is so resonant with its location in the text as to be very likely deliberate.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• Yet his behaviour has created an appearance of conflict, which was hitherto a sackable offence, and has not escaped the notice of foreign spies.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• Friday's historic encounter between North and South Korea gave a world leader who has hitherto shunned the foreign media more camera time than ever before.
  — Jamie Tarabay, CNN, 27 Apr. 2018
• Subscribers are learning to embrace these hitherto-unseen models of entertainment from the comfort of their homes, consuming hours of content in one to two sittings.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2019
• With the West alerted to a crisis that had hitherto received little attention, the United States was among several nations to send troops and military experts to help find the missing students.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 May 2017
• There was no indication of any trouble or problems hitherto.
  — SI.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• So thank you, fall, because if this season's runways are any indication, color is everywhere: yellows, reds, pastels—and a whole bunch of hitherto unheard-of shades.
  — Lisa Armstrong, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 June 2015

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024