Sentence examples for before a kind from inspiring English sources

I know I did, and when I rode through the Upper West Side and the Lower East Side, Williamsburg and Boerum Hill, I felt something I hadn't before, a kind of full permission and robust encouragement, even if motorists continued to behave obtusely.

Overcome by a deep anxiety, something I had not experienced before, a kind of anguish and sadness, I wrote them neatly on a piece of paper.

Indeed, it was not long before a kind of Homeric scholarship began: Theagenes of Rhegium in southern Italy toward the end of the same century wrote the first of many allegorizing interpretations.

Please let me know if that's not the case.' It's a tone Colt has heard his father use before, a kind of arrogant whine, the sound of some frustrated night-hunting animal or an accused prince.

Frank Kimbrough, the pianist, started playing an improvised fantasia that worked in complete dissonance against the slow, repeating, rubato brass chords; it almost split your concentration in half, before a kind of slow Neil Young beat took over and the guitarist John Hart dived in, playing blues language with a little distortion.

But it is one thing to stand awed before the highest office in the land and quite another to stand awed before a kind word from a peer, or the purchase of a new luxury car, or the posting of an especially good Instagram picture.

There was a fractional silence before, in a kind of out-of-step chorus, words of appreciation were delivered mechanically but with a distinct touch of reticence.

And in ways that he has noted before, fashion is a kind of extended Addams family.

What before had been a kind of subtle sleight of hand became more like an out-of-control merry-go-round.

He lay in bed at night, the moments before sleep a kind of stark acquaintance with death.

Tom Wolfe would have the luxury of almost a decade of hindsight and research before publishing a kind of prequel, The Right Stuff, in 1979.