How to Use early in a Sentence

early

1 of 2 adverb

• Early in his career he moved to the city.
• They were trailing by a touchdown early in the fourth quarter.
• She arrived early to help with the preparations.
• I got up early to finish packing.
• The package should be arriving early next week.
• The small room wrote 10 episodes and the show got the greenlight and premiered earlier this year.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 31 May 2023
• Ford shares made gains early in the day, but slipped slightly into the red by the close.
  — WSJ, 15 Sep. 2023
• Just be sure to arrive early—the shop is known to sell out.
  — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 23 Apr. 2023
• It is done early in the morning, and the stalks are set out to dry in the sun for days or weeks, then picked for braiding.
  — Javier E. Piñero, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
• The Detroit Red Wings were late to arrive, and then lost one of their best players early in the game.
  — Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2024
• A little snow produces a quick coating early in the day.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
• Only a few days earlier, Dobbs joined the team via a trade with the Cardinals.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• If the Wildcats exit early this March, there could be real pressure on Lloyd in the spring of 2025.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Some of these buildings were built as early as the 1940s, and there’s little money for repairs.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• All of those bills died earlier this session, Kotek said.
  — Hillary Borrud | , oregonlive, 31 May 2023
• The Club poll, which was released earlier this week, still has Beshear under 50.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2023
• The House will now take a full vote on the legislation, which is set to happen as early as Wednesday.
  — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• Prince William has been patron of the charity since early in his public life.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
• Gardner awkwardly enters the wide shot early for the LFNY.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2024
• Fergie sent her own well-wishes to the King in a post shared on Instagram earlier this month.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
• Taylor’s dad, Scott, also wore the sweatshirt at a Chiefs game earlier this month.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
• Pi, meanwhile, won five Olivier Awards and, earlier this year, three Tonys.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
• The Corps says the study, which must be finished before construction on the project can begin, should be complete late this year or early the next.
  — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 12 June 2023
• Come early to pop into the Finnish sauna or 15-meter-long pool and stay cozy for as long as possible ensconced in one of the hanging chairs.
  — Alia Akkam, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024
• Nathan Mensah worked out for the Portland Trail Blazers earlier this week.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
• Musgraves announced the album earlier this month along with sharing the title-track as the first single.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
• The family woke up early to watch Ohtani’s Angels games, broadcast during the morning in Japan.
  — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• The sun bore down on the red-brick building, which from the front showed little evidence of the violence that had transpired less than two hours earlier.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• Luxury real estate deals started to slump in the third quarter of 2023 compared to earlier in the year.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2024
• The incident took place after the singer had performed four back-to-back concerts in Sydney that week and three shows in Melbourne earlier that month.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024

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early

2 of 2 adjective

• The early part of the book is better than the later part.
• We had an early spring this year.
• We're early. The show doesn't start for half an hour.
• I've always been an early riser.
• The early line on the game favored Ohio State by 2.5 points.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
• The restaurant will take over the former home of The Bard's Town, which closed in early 2023.
  — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2024
• One of the main themes is love and romance, and a guy in his early 30s trying to find the one.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2023
• There were transit cops for a minute too, but in the late 80s or early 90s the city dropped them.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
• There are early deals on lots of great products right now.
  — Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 24 Nov. 2023
• That was the most prophetic show of the early 21st century.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• In the three decades since its heyday, in the late eighties and early nineties, the term has grown to seem a bit old-fashioned.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
• As the early praise for the rookies continues, the list of building blocks for the future grows.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• The pair initially met as child models in the early ‘90s, when Rivera was just 4, per E!
  — Jamie Ballard, Peoplemag, 20 Aug. 2023
• The other woman alleged Combs and singer Aaron Hall took turns raping her and her friend in the early Nineties.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2024
• Vacant storefronts and restaurants began to find new life as clubs in the ‘80s and early ‘90s.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• The injury slowed his early progress, opening the door for Moss to seize the backup quarterback job outright in the spring.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• How do young women today make sense of your early life?
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
• The 24-hour vigil recreates early visitors’ 24 hours in the cave.
  — Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
• That’s up from a post-pandemic high of just over 50% in early June but above the 43% recorded in the same period a year ago.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 4 Sep. 2023
• Much like Dexter and Weeds, the earlier seasons of Shameless are the most astute.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• Cather’s late work, like the early work, wrestled with death and ambition and longing.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
• The hope now is that the Fed could start in June after traders shelved earlier expectations for March.
  — Zimo Zhong, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
• In the early 2000s, Gleicher moved his practice full-time from Chicago to New York.
  — Yeganeh Torbati, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
• One of the many poignant aspects of Nick’s early death is that his friends have carried a lifelong sense of regret and even self-reproach.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2023
• In Denmark the drinking culture is heavy, and the next step is to experiment with drugs from an early age.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
• Tell me about learning the material and the early rehearsals.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• Too early to care There’s plenty to keep investors occupied at the moment: When will the Fed lower the base rate?
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2024
• With the early exit — scores of fans among the huge crowd had probably not even found their seats yet — came the obvious question.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• As much as any of the early players in hip-hop, Combs mainstreamed the money that came out of a new kind of music and the culture that surrounded it.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• The world learned more about her as a person in early 2011 and in the ensuing years after doctors found a baseball-sized cyst on her left ovary.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 25 June 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024