How to use "until" in a sentence

No one will miss me until Tuesday morning

'I'll wait until nine o'clock tomorrow morning

This meant that they wouldn't do anything until late the following day.

I decide not to drink any more until the water is finished

He called Aron's housemate Elliot and asked him to manage the store and rescue operation until he returned

It would have to wait until the morning.

You, Mr Land, and Mr Conseil will stay in your rooms until I say you can leave."

He wanted the pearl to grow, alone there in the cave, until it was truly the most fantastic pearl in the world.

Coach Fellers asked me to put on a football suit, then asked me to undress and dress again, twenty times, until I could do it easily.

We began to move back to the hill, but Doyle suddenly saw more enemy soldiers who were going towards our men! We waited until they got to the top, then Bones began shooting with the machine gun

He was looking very worried until he saw me.

We talked together until it was time for her to sing again.

But I missed the bus that evening, and there wasn't another one until the next day

This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality

And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether."

Until we have wrung justice, and until we have wrung our self-respect from unwilling hands and from unwilling pens, there can be no cooperation

She slept badly in a chair until 3.30, when she heard the clock strike, and was awake until nearly five o'clock

Inspector Abbeline arrived at 11.30 a.m., but he could not give the order to break open the door until 1.30 p.m

Abbeline himself walked around the Whitechapel Streets until four or five in the morning

Nothing had ever touched his heart until he had rescued Cosette

Valjean picked her up and ran with her through a confusing system of alleys until he came to a bridge

Walking more slowly now, thinking he was safe from his pursuers, Valjean followed the alley until he came to a lane that seemed to lead away from the city

He walked along this lane for a long time until, to his horror, he discovered his way blocked by a high wall

He gazed after her until she had disappeared from sight, then rose to his feet and walked around, laughing and talking to himself

Marius waited, his heart aching with pain, until finally going home

'Wait until the day after tomorrow

But until then, I must give you my address

He called her name again and again until, exhausted, he sat down on the stone steps

The crowd grew more and more excited, until finally they tried to take the coffin away from the soldiers and carry it across a bridge

Marius pushed his way through the crowds of frightened, murmuring people that filled the streets until he reached the market area

He had suffered terribly over the years and, until now, he had survived every disaster

One by one the remaining rebels escaped into the wine shop, until only Enjolras and Marius were left outside

Valjean repeated the address until he could remember it, returned the wallet to Marius's pocket, picked Marius up again and continued his journey downwards towards the river

She did not realize that, every evening, Valjean would walk slowly from his house until he reached the corner of the street where she lived

And I remember that after I eat, I wait for her in the car park until she finishes work, and she is surprised to see me there

I think we must wait until tomorrow now."

She always goes for a run in the evening, but this time she waits until he falls asleep in a chair in the lounge, and she puts a candle to the curtains

You see, she runs until she hears the fire engines

Miss Lee waited until the police came and was arrested

It is obvious what the decision will be, but it looks like he will be here until four now

I need to wait for a few days until they think I'm miles from the city

Or it is until he speeds past the large billboard

"Mr Bowen, normally we need to wait forty-eight hours until we can start a missing-person investigation."

But he entered my competition, and he used his tricks and his fast fingers, and he won every game until it came to the final."

And for a little while more they wait, until the surface of the pool is calm again

"I'm counting the weeks until I can sign up," Niki told her

She ran until she was exhausted - too tired to think anymore.

She counted the minutes until it was time to leave for the pod center

She was over an hour late for meeting him at the simulator center, and because her ultranet connection didn't come back on until she was almost there, she couldn't even call him or send him a message

She was counting the hours until she could speak to him again.

Sala stood by the recognition screen and waited until Cham's mom Dani came to the door.

'The fire in the library is not usually lit until the afternoon, Madam,' he said

I could stay there until Maxim came back.

I started to run up the path and did not feel safe until I reached the lawn

'I sat on my bed until after five

We were all right until you came.'

I sat on the terrace until I heard Captain Searle's car drive away

It was just a question of waiting - of waiting until Tuesday.

She had taken several steps up in her career during the past year, and she had relied on hard work as a sort of morphine, using it to dull her pain until the wound fully healed.

He would begin the battle over a triviality and goad her until the bickering escalated into marital warfare

Tina enjoyed dancing in the Lido, and she stayed there for two and a half years, until she learned that she was pregnant

No use putting it off until Thursday, as she had planned

She let the hot water beat down on her neck for several minutes, until the stiffness in her muscles melted and flowed away.

She prayed that she would remain healthy enough to continue working and living on her own until, at last, her time came and all the little windows on the machine of life produced lemons.

The model airplanes slowed, swinging in smaller and smaller circles, until they finally hung motionless.

The final curtain came down at eight minutes till ten o'clock, and the ovation continued until after Tina's wristwatch had marked the hour

One of the models was flung from its shelf, then two more, then three more, then another, until all nine lay in a pile on the floor.

Tina didn't get home from the opening-night party until shortly before two o'clock Wednesday morning

Unless he'd changed shifts in the past six months, he didn't go to work until noon

She pulled the telephone directory from a drawer and leafed through the Yellow Pages until she found the advertisements for locksmiths

He's been drinking pretty regularly, but he's so deep in a trance that he can completely ignore the call of nature until - bingo! - He has a bladder spasm

We'll wait until it's running smoothly, until it doesn't need much of your time

She'd work for another hour, until five o'clock, and then go home

Tina paged through the book until she found the code that she needed to call up the list of the hotel's best customers

Tina waited until at least a hundred names had been listed before she decided that the system had been programmed to print the lines about Danny only one time, only on her office's first data request of the afternoon, and on no later call-up.

She imagined herself leaving her office, walking down the long hallway, opening doors, peering into silent, deserted offices, until at last she found a man sitting at another terminal

If we're clever, he won't know what we're doing until the exhumation is a fait accompli

Tomorrow's a holiday, so we can't get anything done officially until Friday."

"Ordinarily I'd say we'd have to wait until Monday

Most likely, Michael won't be able to get hold of a judge until Monday morning, and by then it'll be too late."

She had told him about the dreams, but he hadn't realized, until now, how terrible they were

He held her until she stopped shuddering.

When at last she drove away, he watched her car until it turned the corner and disappeared, and when she was gone, he knew why he had not wanted to let her go

"Not until you tell me what this is all about."

"Not until you explain yourself."

The memory of it was fixed in her subconscious, festering, until she eventually incorporated it into her nightmares.

But she hadn't read the story until a few minutes ago

But we ought to lie low until we can figure this out."

Behind them, the van dwindled rapidly, until it was a block and a half away

Just to hold the boat until we could see it and make up our minds."

"I won't stop until I know what really happened to Danny."

But I never saw it until today

I think it would be wise for us to stay up there for a couple of days, even after we've talked to Bellicosti, until we can figure a way out of this mess

Tina wanted to walk through the diner and grab each of the customers by the throat, shake and threaten each of them, until she discovered who had rigged the jukebox

Not until he's absolutely certain the heat is off

"Surely you don't want to take such drastic action until you're positive Stryker actually is headed for Reno

And you won't know for sure until he lands up there."

But she sensed that he'd seen something important, and she wouldn't go easily until she knew what it was

"Not until we've gotten rid of those clowns on our tail," he said

George, on the other hand, hadn't filled a post of genuine stature and authority until six years ago, when he was thirty-six

She shook Elliot until she woke him.

Because of the foul-up at the Bellicosti place, George Alexander didn't get to bed until five-thirty Friday morning

"You will stay in that deep sleep until I tell you to wake up

"You will remain totally passive until you feel the urge to use the pen in your hand."

Tina said, "Elliot, what happens if we stay here, hiding out until we can think of an alternative? How much time do we have? Not much

And since the banks are closed for the holiday, we couldn't do anything until next week

I don't open until the end of the month."

The trees hung low, lower, lower still, until, at last, the ice-crusted evergreen boughs frequently scraped across the roof of the Explorer with a sound like fingernails being drawn down a blackboard.

He stopped, put the Explorer in reverse, and backed up twenty feet, until the headlights were shining on the trail that she had spotted.

For two hundred yards ahead, until the road curved once more, nothing threatening was in sight.

But the guy wasn't going to stop until he had instructed the computer to trigger the alarms.

Tamaguchi drove us very hard until we isolated the antibody and figured out why it was so effective against the disease

you'll be attended to in isolation until you die

Take him to a dozen specialists until someone can tell you what's wrong with him

Not until she and Elliot figured out what effect that revelation would have on the boy's life.

'Everything went well until a year later,' said John Openshaw

I can make no promises until I know everything.'

I promised Andre that fly would be destroyed, and I can say nothing until it is.'

'Don't take your glasses off until I tell you,' he said.

If you don't wish to be seen, I'll make you a mask until you get well again

'The professor is away until the end of the week,' a polite voice at the other end informed me.

'I can't be sure until we get the bullet out

Miss Hartnell says she stayed there until seven o'clock, and Redding went with Stone to the Blue Boar for a drink

'Mary had told him that you wouldn't be in till half-past six, and he was willing to wait until then

We went up the path until we came to a new place where it looked as though someone had left the path on the right-hand side

And the 6.50 train was half an hour late! I didn't get home until half-past seven.'

Unless the real murderer is found, I shall be the suspect until I die

He wouldn't have needed to tell you that he couldn't wait any longer until after half-past six

'I did not think it was right to speak until now, because I still needed one more fact in order to explain what had happened

So perhaps the sneeze that Mrs Price Ridley's servant heard might have been the shot? But anyway, Mrs Protheroe and Mr Redding went into the studio together - and then realized, of course, that I would not leave my garden until I saw them come out again!'

Its air is much thinner than ours, its oceans have become smaller until they cover only a third of its surface, and from its far north and south the ice is steadily moving forwards

He watched until one, and then we lit the lamp and walked over to his house.

Even then he hardly understood what was happening, until he heard another sound and saw the black mark jump forwards a little

He got his shoulder and knee up, but again he seemed to slip back until only his head was visible

I ran until I was totally exhausted and I fell down beside the road

The view opened out until, on one side, it reached to the houses around Woking Station, and on the other, to the burnt woods of Byfleet

We remained there until midday, and at that time found ourselves at the place where the River Wey joins the River Thames

I rushed through the water until I could see round the bend

At that moment I got under the water and, holding my breath until movement was painful, swam under the surface for as long as I could

He was a medical student, working for an examination, and he heard nothing of the arrival until Saturday morning

Plenty of Londoners did not hear of the Martians until Monday morning

But there was almost nothing to tell people until the government announced that the people of Walton and Weybridge, and all chat district, were pouring along the roads towards London.

As it was reported later, most of them remained busy with preparations in the pit on Horsell Common until nine that night, doing something that produced a great amount of Black Smoke.

But that was in a village where the Black Smoke was allowed to remain until it sank into the ground

The ends of the curve slowly moved apart, until at least they formed a line about twelve kilometres long.

He saw few other refugees until he met the two ladies who later travelled with him

There were already around forty passengers on the boat, some of whom had spent their last money getting a ticket, but the captain stayed until five in the afternoon, picking up passengers until the boat was dangerously crowded

We stood for a moment in terror, then ran through a gate behind us into a garden and hid in a corner until the stars were out.

Our situation was so strange and unbelievable that for three or four hours, until the dawn came, we hardly moved

He ate more than I did, and did not seem to understand that we had to stay in the house until the Martians had finished their work if we wanted to stay alive

For a long time I lay close to the opening until, encouraged by the silence, I looked out.

I searched every room for food until, when I was ready to give up, I found some bread and two tins of fruit in one of the bedrooms

'After the tenth shot they fired no more - at least until the first cylinder came.'

I hid from the night and the silence until long after midnight, in a garden hut in Harrow Road

Perhaps it was the last to die, and its voice had gone on and on until its machinery stopped

I remember, clearly and in great detail, all that I did that day until the time when I stood crying on the top of Primrose Hill

'I have been married for three years, and my wife and I were very happy until last Monday

'When I saw my wife again I told her that there could be no peace between us until she told me the truth

We did not say another word about the case until late that night at Holmes' house in Baker Street, just before Holmes went to bed.

George works in the City until the afternoon

We decided not to try scrambled eggs again, until Harris had the right pan and stove.

I threw it in the river! Then we rowed away and didn't stop until we reached Maidenhead.

George said, 'Please don't talk about good food, until I finish this cold meat.'

We asked him to take care of the boat until the next morning

She has often wished to drive very near to the end of the sands until the tyres of the car touched the water

'Then let's wait until tomorrow.'

'You'll stay there until you tell the truth!' he cried

I'll stay until Miss Halcombe is well enough to leave, but then I must go.'

The plan depended on Anne staying alive until the real Lady Glyde left Blackwater Park.

In the United Kingdom, the vote did not come until 1918

They were together for fifty-one years, until he died in 1980

The third and fourth waves of feminism, from the 1990s until today, have often been about women's fight against sexual harassment and assault, and the fight to be "themselves"

She said to the BBC, "I wanted the world to get better, and I knew it could not get better if it was going to be ruled by men." Nancy was an MP until 1945.

The Americans did not send a woman into space until Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983.