Example Sentences

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Consistently rewarding earliness, he said, could help curb procrastination.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021

While it’s great that your friend is aware of the roots of her chronic earliness, it sounds like she’s trying to use that as an excuse for never changing her behavior.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2019

Normally, the earliness of the developmental stage can be of some solace to a grieving woman who wants a baby, but not if she’s surrounded by all the trappings of a funeral.

From Washington Times • Aug. 9, 2016

Congratulations on the very earliness of your cancer, may it disappear and never return.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2016

That day the choral society and the athletic club were starting on an expedition, a couple of hundred young men therefore had assembled there, notwithstanding the earliness of the hour.

From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne