Antonyms for by and byby and by

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1. by and by

   Antonyms:
   at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, instanter, instantly, now, presently, right away, right off, straightway, this instant, without delay

   Synonyms:
   after a while, hereafter, in the future, some time

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1. by-and-byadverb

   an indefinite time in the future

   "he'll get around to it in the sweet by-and-by"

2. by and by, lateradverb

   at some eventual time in the future

   "By and by he'll understand"; "I'll see you later"

   Synonyms:
   after, subsequently, afterwards, later, afterward, later on

How to use by and by in a sentence?

1. Tony Abbott:

   I accept that same-sex marriage is a significant issue, but frankly, this government's absolute fundamental priority ... is to get the most urgent budget measures through and by far the most urgent budget measure is the small business budget boost.

2. Louis Tompros:

   And by doing that, in our view, they have gotten this public notoriety for their brand improperly, and so having gotten it improperly, they now can’t go and assert that they have these rights.

3. Max Maizels:

   Cold seems to set up bedwetting. Some families have a child's bed adjacent to an exposed wall and by moving the bed away from the cold wall it seems to reduce wetting.

4. Dean Inge:

   A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

5. Ellen McCurdy:

   We just grabbed a few essentials and just ran and by that stage everybody along the street was on the move.

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