Sentence examples for sometimes ahead from inspiring English sources

His book is a complicated American classic, sometimes ahead of its time on racial matters, sometimes troglodytic.

Through 2009, the Telegraph and the Guardian were two close competitors – sometimes ahead, often very near to, the Mail.

"What you're seeing in the country is that the people do want peace -- sometimes ahead of the government, ahead of the L.T.T.E., ahead of other political forces," Mr. Wickremesinghe said, using the rebel group's initials.

William Parker, on bass, played in and around Matthew Shipp's piano harmonies: sometimes he was behind the rhythm, sometimes ahead, but from start to finish he pickaxed his way through the music.

The scramble spawned a tradition of cutthroat competition — the hunger for the scoop, sometimes ahead of the facts — that propelled the best of British journalism and contributed to its worst failures, lurching beyond reporting into accusations of criminality chronicled in the Leveson report.

I get a call sometimes, ahead of time, telling me, 'Get what you need shipped over before noon, we're shutting it down.' "On this side, it is different, if you owe them in any way, if you have accommodated them or borrowed money, they will shake you down.

Why did the ducks sometimes forge ahead pushing their bills backward and forward?

As with all causes of this sort, the righteousness sometimes runs ahead of the reality.

Crypto-cognoscenti will tell you that spy agencies can sometimes be ahead of the game.

Apulia's eagerness to woo the international jet set sometimes gets ahead of its good taste.

Not wanting to spread the misery, considerate patrons sometimes call ahead to discuss with librarians how best to return lent materials from their bedbug-infested homes.