sooner or later

adverb

: at some uncertain future time : sometime

Examples of sooner or later in a Sentence

sooner or later, the police are going to track down the burglar
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Obtuse comments aside, the painfully predictable Owen-finds-another-woman side plot is bound to hurt Teddy sooner or later. Laura Bradley, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025 Perhaps once anyone dies, sooner or later, does anything matter? R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025 The availability of spring rains will also factor into whether irrigation is needed sooner or later. Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Mar. 2025 Even in cases where the elites get what’s coming to them, as was arguably the case with Czarist Russia, the consequences at a human level are often dire, and the ideals sooner or later give way to personal ambitions, petty score settling and violence for the sake of violence. Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sooner or later

Word History

First Known Use

1577, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of sooner or later was in 1577

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“Sooner or later.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sooner%20or%20later. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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