before and after
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.70 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Example Sentences
- "First, make some notes and take a photograph. Before and after pictures are always interesting and will serve to remind you of what you began with. Such pictures will eventually build a fascinating portfolio of your earlier work."
- "The book comes complete with a CD containing a PDF document presenting summaries of the treatment of each individual vessel complete with large before and after images."
- "When the day had come to begin the begin the process of his transformation, he had cameras for before and after shots and really set this glamorous picture of the life of theater."
- "We do many before and afters at Cosmo with models (who don't look all that great before the makeup, incidentally) and civilians, and none of them ever continues to do the “after” makeup on a regular basis."
- "I did have a lot of before and after shots: with and without a filter; with the correct exposure and one stop over-exposed; with the light to my back and the light to my side. I showed them these before and afters and told them I thought they’d make a good article."
- "We shared a few photos of our first home’s transformation in the preface, but sometimes before and afters can be dangerous. Why? Well, they can make it seem like those rooms instantly came together and the makeover happened at warp speed just because you saw the before and the after in such rapid succession."