no sooner

idiom

—used to emphasize the short time in which something happens

I had no sooner walked through the door when the phone rang.

No sooner did I walk through the door than the phone rang.

Examples of no sooner in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But in January, NASA announced that both missions would be delayed, with launch dates no sooner than September 2025 and September 2026. —Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2024

As the Gaia project continues to develop its map of the Milky Way, the next installment of its data is slated to be published no sooner than 2025. —Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024

The State Board would determine those requirements by Aug. 1, and school districts would need to comply with them by no sooner than July 1, 2025. —Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024

Kentucky law currently indicates an unpaid lunch break must be provided no sooner than 3 hours after a shift begins and nor later than 5 hours after the start of a shift. —Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2024

In the Florida case, the judge is weighing competing requests: prosecutors asked to start in early July, and Trump sought a date no sooner than August. —Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024

Even so, no sooner was the ruling issued than the legal challenges began. —Holly Ojalvo, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024

For the agency’s mission, which will launch no sooner than 2026, NASA has contracted with SpaceX to land a two-person crew near the lunar south pole. —Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024

Notably, this spot is a potential landing site for the NASA Artemis 3 mission slated for no sooner than 2026. —Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024