betimes
Example Sentences
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Poppies don’t bloom in December — not even here — and roses put in an appearance only betimes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022
It originated as Union Army surplus fabric after the Civil War, and 19th-century officers wore it betimes with a cowboy hat, or with an Abe Lincoln stovepipe topper.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2021
"Moral Rearmament" became the 1938 slogan of Dr. Frank Buchman's Oxford Groups, who worked betimes for a religious revival, and betimes announced that it had already happened.
From Time Magazine Archive
In most U.S. cities bars close by 1 a.m. and most U.S. citizens go to bed betimes, anyhow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Happy is he who hath sown his wild oats betimes.
From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Preston, Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
