How to Use early in a Sentence
- 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.
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Sparks flied early in this one.
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Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
4 Mar. 2026
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Here’s where and when to vote early.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 May 2026
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The tanker was hit with a drone earlier this month.
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ABC News,
24 Mar. 2026
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They could be installed as early as next week.
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Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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Her body was found in bed earlier that day.
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Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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Jaws had come out a year earlier.
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Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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Those will be two key things to watch early in the season.
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Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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That took Maxey out of the game early.
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C.j. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
5 May 2026
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Game 2, at least early, belonged to the group.
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C.j. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Love and Kraft hooked up early and often.
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Sign up here to get it days earlier free in your inbox.
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Nina Bambysheva,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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There are some hints of gradual warm-up early next week.
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Steven Sosna,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Traoré took his lumps early but started and excelled down the stretch.
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C.j. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Witt revealed his desire to win early in camp.
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Kansas City Star,
17 Feb. 2026
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My husband has to leave for work even earlier.
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Nell Frizzell,
Vogue,
13 Jan. 2026
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Bees may emerge earlier if the weather is warm.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Apr. 2026
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Rooney went on record a few days earlier to say the door is open for a return.
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Mike Defabo,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Starting too early causes seedlings to grow tall and lanky with weak stems.
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Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Jan. 2026
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Fans arrived early and many took a free shuttle.
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Miami Herald,
16 June 2026
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Madrigal is set to be sentenced early next year.
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Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025
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The transaction will close as early as late this year.
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Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
4 Mar. 2026
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The search for the pair began earlier this month.
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Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
20 Apr. 2026
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Patchy fog is possible early in the day.
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Brandi D. Addison,
IndyStar,
3 Mar. 2026
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If a mess does happen, clean up spills or messy bakes early so that grime and grease don’t build up.
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Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
21 Jan. 2026
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Pulisic earlier this week refused to point to any one thing when asked about the drought.
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Paul Tenorio,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
- 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.
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De Rosario had two early chances.
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Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
1 Sep. 2025
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Her early books are no longer on her website.
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Emma Green,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The Canes sure didn’t play like it (at least early).
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Miami Herald,
1 Sep. 2025
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Here’s your early-access look at where to be.
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Allison Palmer,
Sacbee.com,
16 Mar. 2026
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What are your early thoughts on the 9-1-1 spinoff?
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Andy Swift,
TVLine,
12 Oct. 2025
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Crude prices surged in early trading.
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Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
19 Apr. 2026
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But the launch has been pushed into early March.
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Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
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The Gulf has already shown early signs of that change.
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Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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It is scheduled to end in early May.
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ABC News,
3 May 2026
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The team won again in early May and then came senior night.
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Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
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The early returns, though, weren’t good.
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Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
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Oil prices pared earlier gains.
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Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
17 May 2026
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Today's slate of games starts with a bang in the early window.
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Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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The early goal was one thing, but the pop from the crowd was another.
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Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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As for being on time, a good rule of thumb is that on time is late and early is on time.
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Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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There are already early signals as to what this might look like.
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Rob Toews,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2026
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Her husband and their five children spent their early years there.
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Wilborn P. Nobles Iii,
Dallas Morning News,
12 Jan. 2026
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Small, unauthorized charges can be early signs of fraud.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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The video above is from an earlier report.
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Noel Brennan,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Postecoglou has some serious work to do to win them around, even at this early stage.
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Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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All France needs in that game is one early goal, and the floodgates could open.
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Phil Hay,
New York Times,
4 July 2026
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An early penalty kill, though, changed their fortunes.
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Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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And the early founders didn’t just want a place to care for creatures, but a place people could learn.
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Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
9 Mar. 2026
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For the whole of my early childhood, the bad guys were Russians.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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An early exit for Ecuador could be on the horizon.
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Kellis Robinett,
Kansas City Star,
21 June 2026
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This was one of the early instances in which Djena was kicked out of the house.
—
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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