previous

In a sentence

Six example sentences with previous, each labelled with its topic.

• Load the previous save if the bridge collapses, since nothing later in the level gives you a second rope.

  Gaming

• Revenue fell four percent against the previous quarter, the first decline the company had reported in eleven years.

  Business

• Add five pounds to whatever the previous session ended with, and stop the moment your form starts to break down.

  Fitness

• The previous experiment used a warmer solution, which turned out to explain why its results never repeated.

  Science

• The previous tenant of the cabin left a map with every good swimming spot along the river marked in pencil.

  Travel

• The previous coach ran a slow half court offense, and the new one needed a month to get the team sprinting.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains previous. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• funding
• rejected
• expand
• enforcement
• protocol
• channels
• underlying
• restrict
• expanded
• minor
• detect
• individually