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Definition of Sooner or later
1. Adverb. (set phrase) Eventually, at some undetermined point in the not-too-distant future. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sooner Or Later
Literary usage of Sooner or later
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"Death is of course sure to come to the suitors sooner or later. The essential
point here is surely the time of ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"... is it not plain that your conservatism has become an artificial barrier which
the progress of society must sooner or later sweep away ? ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"... is it not plain that your conservatism has become an artificial barrier which
the progress of society must sooner or later sweep away ? ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... to the solid ground of specie payments, to which we must return sooner or later.
If Congress shall, early in the approaching session, authorise the ..."
5. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"I wait to be better informed, and this I shall be sooner or later. In the meantime,
be persuaded that innocence accused will find a defender sufficiently ..."
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