How to Use prior in a Sentence

prior

1 of 2 adjective

• We have a prior claim to the estate.
• Do you have a prior history of back problems?
• The defendant had a prior record of convictions.
• I'm sorry, but we have a prior commitment and can't come tonight.
• The job requires prior experience in advertising.
• At each fork, the results of the prior decision guide the way.
  — Jessica Wapner, SELF, 7 Feb. 2019
• Contrary to a prior report, the LaPlace name will be kept.
  — cleveland.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Signs of life had already begun to emerge the prior day.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 15 May 2020
• But experts have a hazier view of the building wave than in prior years.
  — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
• The city fell short of that demand by a total of about 1,480 units, or about half, for the prior three years.
  — Ryan Anderson, arkansasonline.com, 11 Feb. 2024
• Many of us had worked with Kurt Cobain over the prior three years, or his music had touched us deeply.
  — Dave Sirulnick, Variety, 16 May 2023
• Ginsburg was one of five votes that saved the law on two prior court challenges.
  — Darlene Superville, Star Tribune, 28 Sep. 2020
• And that’s true even of judges who come to the Court with a fair amount of prior experience as judges.
  — Mark Tushnet, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2020
• These areas saw more of a mix of line drives and popups than the prior sections.
  — Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2021
• The Badgers, who had missed two prior games from their own outbreak, were out of luck.
  — Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 10 Dec. 2020
• Chubb did the same after being denied a fourth down rush at the 2-yard line on the prior series.
  — cleveland, 18 Sep. 2020
• Smith cannot leave the state without prior court approval.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2020
• See the complete how-to video here and check out prior entries below.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2021
• But in the short term, the writers put on the dole have no easy way to show their prior work when seeking new employment.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
• The author thanks Brook Baker for comments on a prior draft.
  — David S. Levine, STAT, 10 July 2020
• Putin denied having prior knowledge of the decision to force the plane to land.
  — Mark Joyella, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• See the complete ribs video and check out prior cooking how-tos below.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 25 June 2021
• What was clear was that the prior consensus approach hadn’t worked.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Sep. 2020
• Though this winter was good for Poconos ski tourism, prior years have been tougher on the ski industry.
  — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
• But for a single offense for a person with no prior record?
  — Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
• For the full year, JetBlue is targeting sales growth of 4% to 5%, compared with a prior outlook of 3% to 5% growth.
  — Will Feuer, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
• See everything Chef Frank had to say in this video and check out prior food prep videos below.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2021
• The exact size of these bits depends on your level of prior knowledge.
  — Amina Youssef-Shalala, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2019
• The legislation approved Thursday goes back and reduces unspent funding in the prior and current budget years.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• The references to Harvey Weinstein are simply meant to inflame and appear to be plagiarized from prior cases against Mr. Weinstein.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024

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prior

2 of 2 noun

• The sheriff says Greenwood had taken drugs the night before and had no priors.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 11 May 2018
• Stevens also didn’t have a driver’s license and was found to have two DUI priors in Missouri.
  — Fox News, 11 July 2018
• Plenty of people learn more only to better serve their priors.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 9 Dec. 2018
• The suspect was charged with burglary of a motor vehicle with 2 priors, evading on foot, and felon in possession of a weapon.
  — Houston Chronicle, 21 May 2018
• The sentence imposed on the gun-use allegation also was tripled, and five years were added because of Royal’s serious felony priors.
  — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
• In a few short decades, these groups and others helped commit roughly half the country to the ideological priors that had once made Goldwater unelectable.
  — Osita Nwanevu, Slate Magazine, 12 Aug. 2017
• Its priors, which had generated the prediction, had proved trustworthy in the past; and sometimes the information coming from the eyes wasn’t reliable.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
• Her attorney, Neil Levine, said Vazquez-Hernandez had no priors, and had arranged before her arrest for counseling to deal with her anger issues with her husband.
  — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Chapman, a mechanic, has priors for trying to solicit children.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, Houston Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
• Individuals with no strong political priors seem not to have been swayed in either direction.
  — Leonid Peisakhin, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
• What emerges most powerfully here is the refusal of this proud steed of technocratic managerialism to engage with new circumstances, even as many in his own liberal camp reevaluate their priors.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
• In other words, being hallucination-prone went along with perceptual priors having a stronger effect on perception.
  — Anil K. Seth, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2019
• There's a lot of research on 'motivated reasoning' including my work that finds people apply less scrutiny to information that affirms their priors and more scrutiny to information that contradicts them.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 25 July 2019
• The chief justice also does have legitimate philosophical priors about respecting precedent and issuing the narrowest possible opinions.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 9 July 2018
• There is nothing about Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy or ideological priors that Flake finds objectionable.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 3 Oct. 2018
• The sheriff says Greenwood had taken drugs the night before and had no priors.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 11 May 2018
• Stevens also didn’t have a driver’s license and was found to have two DUI priors in Missouri.
  — Fox News, 11 July 2018
• Plenty of people learn more only to better serve their priors.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 9 Dec. 2018
• The suspect was charged with burglary of a motor vehicle with 2 priors, evading on foot, and felon in possession of a weapon.
  — Houston Chronicle, 21 May 2018
• The sentence imposed on the gun-use allegation also was tripled, and five years were added because of Royal’s serious felony priors.
  — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
• In a few short decades, these groups and others helped commit roughly half the country to the ideological priors that had once made Goldwater unelectable.
  — Osita Nwanevu, Slate Magazine, 12 Aug. 2017
• Its priors, which had generated the prediction, had proved trustworthy in the past; and sometimes the information coming from the eyes wasn’t reliable.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
• Her attorney, Neil Levine, said Vazquez-Hernandez had no priors, and had arranged before her arrest for counseling to deal with her anger issues with her husband.
  — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Chapman, a mechanic, has priors for trying to solicit children.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, Houston Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
• Individuals with no strong political priors seem not to have been swayed in either direction.
  — Leonid Peisakhin, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
• What emerges most powerfully here is the refusal of this proud steed of technocratic managerialism to engage with new circumstances, even as many in his own liberal camp reevaluate their priors.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
• In other words, being hallucination-prone went along with perceptual priors having a stronger effect on perception.
  — Anil K. Seth, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2019
• There's a lot of research on 'motivated reasoning' including my work that finds people apply less scrutiny to information that affirms their priors and more scrutiny to information that contradicts them.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 25 July 2019
• The chief justice also does have legitimate philosophical priors about respecting precedent and issuing the narrowest possible opinions.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 9 July 2018
• There is nothing about Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy or ideological priors that Flake finds objectionable.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 3 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024