How to use "earlier" in a sentence

I arrived here earlier than I thought

The optimistic feelings of earlier in the day have disappeared

I decide to film earlier today

A more probable suspect is George Hutchinson (mentioned earlier)

The Bishop of Digne was a kind old man who, many years earlier, had given his palace to the town hospital

Madeleine, and was sure that he had seen him somewhere before, many years earlier

He bent and kissed the sleeping child's forehead just as, nine months earlier, he had kissed her mother's.

For the next three years, Marius lived in a small room in an old, damp-walled building on the outskirts of Paris - the same room that Valjean and Cosette had lived in eight years earlier

The man was the same, but the thin, plain girl of six months earlier had become a beautiful young woman

She did not reply but stood thoughtfully looking at him, seeming to have lost all her earlier confidence

Leblanc and repeated his earlier question

That evening, Cosette was alone in the house which Jean Valjean had bought about a year earlier

He remembered the little girl he had rescued from the Thenardiers ten years earlier, and felt sad that he was no longer the most important man in her life

'We ought to have gone on the earlier train.' She looked at her watch

They were earlier than I expected

The closet door slammed open and shut with substantially more force than it had earlier.

She remembered the complaint that Angela had made earlier

They plugged it in and tried to get it to repeat what it had done earlier, but they had no luck; the machine behaved exactly as it was meant to behave.

"You have a pretty high opinion of me," he said, repeating what she had said to him earlier.

They fell easily into the pace and rhythm that had earlier best pleased them

He had loaded the depleted magazine earlier; now he jacked a bullet into the chamber

Staring at her, I was about to say that her boy had asked the very same question a few hours earlier

I went out for a walk earlier

The writing was the same as that on the other anonymous letter that I received earlier

So she must have come back on an earlier train.' She looked at me

A few minutes earlier there had only been three things in my mind: the great size of the night and space and nature, my own weakness and unhappiness, and the near approach of death

Several officers had been on the common earlier in the day and one was reported to be missing

No one in London knew what the Martians looked like, and there was still a fixed idea that they must be slow: 'crawling', 'moving painfully' - words like these were in all the earlier reports

He was fat, red- faced, middle-aged, well-dressed; perhaps earlier he had been important

The Count replied, 'Later, when the ladies are asleep.' I said that I had a headache and went up to my room earlier than usual