"hitherto" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

hitherto adverbio

verbo + hitherto
Kolokacji: 16
hitherto known • hitherto seen • displayed hitherto • hitherto consider • hitherto existed • ...
hitherto + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 14
hitherto unknown • hitherto unsuspected • hitherto unseen • hitherto undiscovered • hitherto unexplored • ...
(2) silent, unheard
Kolokacji: 2
1. hitherto silent = dotychczas cichy hitherto silent
  • It must have, I concluded, since I now began to hear shocking guttural murmurs from that hitherto silent direction.
  • The unity of our gathering thus demonstrated, a hitherto silent member of the crowd was encouraged to speak.
  • With amazing suddenness the matter came to a vote-and the law was terminated by a massive, hitherto silent, majority.
  • You see it was from a sense of duty that she has been silent hitherto.
  • "The man is laughing at us," cries one of the hitherto silent assassins.
  • Piruusi, hitherto silent, came to Shef and pointed.
  • Like a magnet, Heartland has drawn a hitherto silent, oppressed minority with no navel rings or pierced tongues.
  • The memory seemed to pluck some string of emotion in him that had been hitherto silent.
  • The statement came from Lamont Cranston, hitherto silent.
  • The hitherto silent soldier muttered, "And our commands say no one comes in tonight."
2. hitherto unheard = dotychczas niepostrzeżenie hitherto unheard

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