Word Finder - until

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Up to the time of (something happening).

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If you can wait until after my meeting with her, we'll talk then.

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Up to (a certain place)

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Keep walking until the second set of traffic lights, then turn left.

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Before (a time).

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To; physically towards.

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Up to the time that (a condition becomes true).

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Before (a condition becoming true).

We went to bed and slept until morning.

At least wait until the doctor sees her.

I was talking with Morino until almost midnight.

I didn't know what to tell you until then.

Let us wait until evening.

The woodman stirred the fire until the flames leaped high and the sparks flew out of the roof hole.

I'm not going home until you talk to me.

But Miss Sullivan did not arrive until the following March.

People used to sweep the streets at night until a machine replaced them.

The messengers went on until they came at last to the island of Rhodes.

Again she coughed until she retched.

I held her hands firmly until she became more calm.

Of course, if you prefer, we can wait until you come home from work and make it a fun family event.

All is well and good until things turn down for a nation.

Until then I had been like a foreigner speaking through an interpreter.

Indeed, I feel as if I had never seen anything until now, Helen finds so much to ask about along the way.

I wouldn't believe it was alive until I saw it move.

He had decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand.

Alex was in a good mood and it was a pleasant trip - until Felipa made a comment about Tessa's visit the night before.

It was not long until the man came with another present.

Up until now, we have thought of the Internet as a place to store information, and we have depended upon search engines to help us find it.

The questions plagued her until one evening when the black car returned.

I'll wait until tomorrow.

Until I was ten years old, my family lived in rural east Texas.

Until very recently, our world was ruled by kings.

You can never imagine how I felt when I stood in the presence of Niagara until you have the same mysterious sensations yourself.

She was the one who had insisted on waiting until they were married.

But we did not begin the story until August; the first few weeks of my stay at the seashore were so full of discoveries and excitement that I forgot the very existence of books.

In such cases I was forced to repeat the words or sentences, sometimes for hours, until I felt the proper ring in my own voice.

He didn't act concerned when she told him she had looked at them - not until she questioned the source.

His big hands came up, grasping her wrists and pulling her forward until her armpits rested on his shoulders.

Over this Land I ruled in peace for many years, until I grew old and longed to see my native city once again.

And they did not feel themselves safe until they were once more in Boston.

Jim's eyes stuck out as much as those of the Sawhorse, and he stared at the creature with his ears erect and his long head drawn back until it rested against his arched neck.

Not until you talk.

If I suggest her leaving a problem in arithmetic until the next day, she answers, "I think it will make my mind stronger to do it now."

I never thought of him as being anything else but a salesman until I saw him tonight, but he seems so... comfortable now.

Only weeks remained until college started.

Poverty will be redefined upward until, for all intents and purposes, poverty as we know it today no longer will exist.

I ask the reader to resist the urge to pigeonhole me until the end of the section.

It was not until Mr. Keith taught me that I had a clear idea of mathematics.

He shook the newspaper and said nothing more until Sarah announced that supper was ready.

Consider it an advance until you get the package.

He was quiet, unaware of the depths of her hurt until now.

But I must put away these idle fancies until we meet again.

And so the fun went on until the clock showed that it lacked only ten minutes till school would be dismissed.

They say that Arion, being a good swimmer, kept himself afloat until this ship happened to pass by and rescued him from the waves.

Waiting until they were out of view from the men at the corral, Carmen rode up beside Alex.

Waiting until Yancey disappeared down the path, she walked over to the desk.

Some people never knew what they had until they lost it.