How to Use previous in a Sentence

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• She has a child from a previous marriage.
• The two characters met in a previous chapter.
• That’s down one spot and 11 points from the previous week.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2023
• In my two previous films there was a lot of nature and the forest.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
• This year is on track to more than double the previous record, which was last year.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
• That’s up $2 from the previous top-end Paramount+ package.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Skip to the next and previous photo by typing j/k or ←/→.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2023
• The previous record of four has only been achieved by Harry Styles, Adele, and Blur.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2024
• The hazy-for-days brew didn't have an easy path to the title by any means, taking on two previous champs in back-to-back weeks.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024
• His building still holds the scars of previous wars and battles that Derna witnessed in the past decade.
  — Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• The teen had lost 55 pounds in the previous 18 months because of vomiting and stomach pain.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• None of his previous books had by then sold more than 5,000 copies in hardcover.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• In the four previous reports, there was always an increase in deaths.
  — Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• In May, production rose 10% compared to the previous year to reach a record 27 terawatt hours.
  — William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
• His debut full-length, Montero, came out the previous year.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2024
• The previous law also limited rentals to no more than two guests per stay.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2023
• The previous owner had, in fact, lived in the apartment since 1979 and was a sculptor and, for a time, a curator at the Noguchi Museum in Queens.
  — Max Berlinger, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• Herro missed the previous 20 games because of a foot injury.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2024
• Ott had lost his friend, Eddie Lindros, who just so happened to be one of two hikers who had died the previous week.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
• The current war is much more intense and complex than previous rounds of fighting, said Avivi.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
• But at its best moments, the look and feel of the show is at least a clear departure from previous iterations of the franchise.
  — Jessica Liese, Variety, 15 June 2023
• Check out previous Ones, and listen to new rap from Skrilla and more on our Spotify playlist.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 2 Jan. 2024
• Jones, 33, was being held on a charge of possession of a weapon by a previous offender.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 13 June 2023
• Even Treadaway, despite his previous reluctance, saw the need for it in cases like that of Nichols.
  — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
• Home sales figures are below the level in previous years, while estimates for June car sales showed a drop from a year ago.
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• In photos obtained by the Daily Mail, Styles rocked somewhat longer hair than his previous buzz cut.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
• The court appearance was re-scheduled after a previous court date on Sept. 5 that Lauren was not present for.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• The previous smart glasses version from the joint venture was a flop, failing to gain broad consumer traction.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
• The pattern is still very much that target was previous spotted by a scout drone operator and the Lancet is vectored on to it.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Netflix kind of invented this system of streaming and everyone else had to pile in, to the detriment of the previous system.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024