in due course
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.09 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
When the time is right; presently; eventually.
Example Sentences
- "The kitchen will be painted in due course."
- "The Stage I electrified area has been resignalled throughout with colour-lights, which in due course will be associated with B.R. standard A.W.S., and 27 signalboxes now do the work of the steam age's 56."
- "If something utterly dreadful happens to you, shrug it off, put it down to experience and, in due course, turn it into an anecdote."
- "March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary […] he began to set his sights on some of the most fundamental questions concerning the physical nature of the universe. In due course, he would achieve extraordinary successes against the severest physical disabilities."