How to Use already in a Sentence

already

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• I'd already left by the time you called.
• Do you have to go already?
• They've already agreed to come.
• He acted as if he didn't already know.
• Have they arrived already?! I'm still not dressed!
• The Buckeyes are already a little banged up on offense.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022
• Trump has already been active in selecting people to serve in key posts throughout the government.
  — Jason Gewirtz,patricia Martell, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
• The job was already weaker than some other governorships.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2022
• The restaurant area is already complete with gray chairs and stools, white tables and copper wine refrigerators lining the wall.
  — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2022
• There are already nearly a dozen geothermal power plants in the area, near the receding shoreline of the Salton Sea.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• The couple is already parents to sons Shai Josef, 2, and Asher Noah, 1.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2022
• The longest-serving Ranger is enduring an awful season and already knows his GM wants him out, thanks to that memo.
  — Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
• This will be particularly true in education where there decades long drive towards personalization has already laid the groundwork.
  — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
• It’s already accumulated more than 17 million streams on Spotify.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2024
• Our to-watch list is already a mile long…and about to get longer.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Dec. 2022
• If this is already a lot of stretch in your hips, stay here.
  — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 28 July 2024
• Some of the exiting brands have already been wiped from the site.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2023
• Their view was, look, the FBI has the main suspect in the Tylenol murders already.
  — Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
• Next year's summer movie slate is already up in the air.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Justin Hohn, who had already made four 3s, launched one with a hand in his face.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Chase Bradley and Nick Capone have three goals each already.
  — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• The country has already been on high alert since the start of the war in Gaza last October.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 11 Aug. 2024
• Joy and Girard already briefly met Rogers' dad, Keith, on the farm early on in the process.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2024
• The migrants can stay for up to two years but must have a sponsor already in place in the United States.
  — Andrea Rodríguez, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
• Six other states have already banned the practice, and forced prison labor isn’t a thing in the EU.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2024
• So, our already busy judge now has even more to read and more decisions to make.
  — Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
• At that point most of the railroads already had been unionized, some all the way back to the mid-19th century.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
• Rake up and dispose of this year’s leaves, even those already fallen.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• Things that have already stood the test of time often have another 50 years left in them!
  — Kim Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024
• While the Ford Bronco Sport has already had its share of special editions, this might be the best one yet.
  — cleveland, 2 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025