then

How to use then in a sentence

England alone-then a comparatively weak and insignificant country-stood out against this overwhelming combination.

Do we not see that it is highly requisite that a sweet girl should be now-and-then drawn aside by him?

Have you now related all the conversation you had at that time with then-Vice President Johnson?

WARREN COMMISSION (7 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. VII (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

And what conversations, if any, did you have with then-Vice President Johnson?

WARREN COMMISSION (7 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. VII (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

Wouldst find the fair lady Fate chooses for you?Then search ye this line of wee pin-pricks clear through.

SUPPERSPAUL PIERCE

Haste!Then get ye gone quickly.Hence to your work.Home to your gorges!

Ah!then where is your clueproduce your cluewhat is your clue?

A DESPERATE GAMEJOHN MADDISON MORTON

Foreign children, who come to America before the age of ten, speak both then-native tongue and English with equal fluency.

A sweet and grateful flush then overspread her fair face; a gentle sigh now-and-then heaved her handkerchief.

Now-and-then she changed her censuring looks to looks of pity of me—but (as she said) she loved not to aggravate!

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985