How to Use not until in a Sentence

not until

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• The Fed cut rates three times last year, though not until the fall.
  — Zach Lachance, The Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2026
• As for whether the teams care, the answer is no — not until next week, anyway.
  — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 21 June 2025
• Yet people in those places haven't turned there much, not until recently.
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 18 July 2024
• Three minutes, maybe, and honestly, not until the very end.
  — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Dec. 2025
• Allar didn’t do that Saturday, at least not until late in the game.
  — Dane Brugler, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
• The next available in-person slot was not until July.
  — Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 12 Mar. 2026
• The truth is that they were estranged—but not until the early 1900s.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• And not until 1974 could women get credit cards on their own, in their own name.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
• But not until the old war reserves run out, potentially in a couple of years.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Alas, though, not until Peterson gets past his own problem.
  — Kansas City Star, 22 Nov. 2025
• But not until the end of the summer-long growing process, made possible by deer antler velvet.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 10 Jan. 2024
• Facebook took the video down shortly afterward, but not until it had been viewed thousands of times.
  — Marc Fisher and Naomi Nix, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• Only a single line from Hamlet gets spoken, and not until the book’s end.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2025
• But with the deadline not until, February, there is a lot of time to figure things out.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
• But not until Vrabel had Schooler ever seen a head coach quite like this.
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
• At least not until the bomb that killed four young ladies at a Birmingham Baptist church.
  — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 14 Mar. 2023
• At least not until Week 13, when the Niners play the Browns.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2025
• Manco’s big day is not until October, but the photo shoot couldn’t wait.
  — Marvin Joseph, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• The result is long-lasting strength, bounce, and resilience that improves with time, not until your next shampoo.
  — Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2025
• Bostic now expects just one interest rate cut in 2024, and not until the end of the year.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2024
• The tale does show up in a book about religious symbols, but that’s not until 1919.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 10 Feb. 2023
• But not until the hook hits does the song really kick into high gear, and become an avant-garde dance-pop treatise for the ages.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• That's one reason why girls tend to get diagnosed years later than boys, often not until adulthood.
  — Maria Godoy, NPR, 26 July 2026
• Apparently not… not until later that is, when the other two sit around and talk about Kate.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
• And then there was another caution in overtime — but not until Love had received the white flag.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 16 Feb. 2025
• The men had hoped Franks’ body would never be found, or at least not until decomposition had set in.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
• Andrews didn’t stop to answer a single one, not until he was done hearing from an old friend about life, football and what comes next.
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
• The consensus view is that the Fed will hike rates, but not until September.
  — Sarah Min, CNBC, 24 July 2026
• But these families cannot — not until someone answers for what happened to their daughters.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
• As of today, their next first-round pick after ‘26 is not until 2031.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2026