Sentence examples for clue before from inspiring English sources
If the clue "BEFORE FALL" led to the answer "PRIDE," for example, drawing from the Bible, he conceded that it would be "carrying things a trifle too far," as he wrote in an essay, to use the clue "SUMMER".
I had no clue before answering the phone.
Rocket from the Tombs was Crocus Behemoth's band before he founded Pere Ubu (a clue, before you even get to the text which explains this, is in the tracklist of their album The World's Only Dumb-Metal, Mind‑Death Rock'n'Roll Band, which includes "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", a song familiar to me from Pere Ubu's repertoire).
"Please, journalists, get a clue before you write about science," pleaded an irate column in The Guardian, co-authored by an evolutionary biologist who goes by the Twitter handle @GrrlScientist and statistician Bob O'Hara at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany.
"We had just no clue before this".
The reptiles are in the world Government and that is why they say history repeats itself and hopefully one day man and woman will get a clue before it's too late.
As a fellow classicist I was much taken with Mr McKenna's clue above before deciding that it was just too specialized to be prizeworthy, especially as neither 'nominative pendens'nor 'hanging nominative' (a frequently-occurring solecism which always annoys me) is given in Chambers.Is a split infinitive a solecism?
Frogs may require the right phase of the moon, or certain bugs, rainfall, songs, or other mysterious clues before they mate.
On Iraq, he says, there certainly were clues before the war began — for instance, that meeting in the Oval Office with President Bush and Condoleezza Rice, two months before the war.
Europe's intelligence agencies missed a series of key clues before Friday night's attacks in Paris that allowed the eight terrorists who carried out the atrocities to pass under the radar of security services.
Administration officials acknowledge that they fear that information in the reports might be construed to suggest that the White House had clues before Sept. 11, 2001, that Al Qaeda was planning a catastrophic attack.
