since
from a time in the past until now
How often you will meet it
Rank 252 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 88,800 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.042% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
preposition
- from a time in the past until now
conjunction
- because
- from the time when
since in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Since he couldn't remember, he might have done anything.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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Since then I have waited some months, but nothing more has appeared.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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For many a league, for many a weary mile, We've trudged along since break of day began.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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Look at my cousin, Gus Vanderpool--he made Keys twenty years ago and has never done a thing since.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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He had been entered since birth at the crack house at Eton; and now to be pitchforked into Dirty Dick's at Harrow----!
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1