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to-be
[ tuh-bee ]
adjective
- future; soon to be the thing specified (usually used in combination):
bride-to-be.
-to-be
adjective
- in combination about to be; future
the bride-to-be
a mother-to-be
Word History and Origins
Origin of to-be1
Example Sentences
What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
In the years to come, Wha became a legendary starting out spot for various soon-to-be rock stars.
Perhaps ascribing a distaste for the Oscar winner and soon-to-be Interstellar star is an overstatement.
It was 2008 and Michael Keaton had just met soon-to-be-president Barack Obama.
Feel free to use this sort-of-sad break up as a practice run for the sure-to-be-devastating demise of Bey and Jay.
"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
Next night at dinner I proposed Sir Alister's health, and we all drank to him and his "bride-to-be."
The fun, when the school broke up for the term, was of the never-to-be-forgotten variety.
And if he ever saw one, his corpse-to-be was a methodical little piece of humanity.
Flinging wide the glass door, we stepped out upon the terrace of the pergola-to-be, and looked toward the new bird bath.
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