Sentence examples for an instant before from inspiring English sources

Despite the dark streaks in these meditations, Kooser's poems stubbornly insist upon the glory of such mortal transitions, as in the lovely "Skater," in which Kooser describes his subject performing a difficult leap, then "skating backward right out of that moment, smiling back / at the woman she'd been just an instant before".

Time is, therefore, the measure not of any specific motion but the measure of motion (DT 42) defined by an instant before and an instant after.

He spoke an instant before I did.

The front foot strikes the ground an instant before the diagonal hind foot.

Hiding, reappearing, mostly successful but always caught again for an instant before she ran away.

The winning layup left his hand an instant before the buzzer sounded.

"I've done some things in my career that have been cool, but I've never made someone an instant millionaire before," Wheldon said.

"I think the goals will come," she said an instant later, before referring to last week's scoreless tie against the Atlanta Beat.

After hearing two hours of argument about the nexus between democracy and chads, a federal judge paused barely an instant today before handing Vice President Al Gore an important victory in the first courtroom battle of the postelection.

In last year's draft, the No. 1 pick over all was the high-school sensation, LeBron James, but T.J. Ford, the 5-10 point guard from Texas, was the No.8 pick, going to Milwaukee and becoming an instant starter before being injured.

In an instant, and before a single show has officially debuted, it has established a brand.