ULTERIOR in a Sentence

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Example sentences for ULTERIOR, such as:
1. Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning.
2. This lever must serve some ulterior purpose.
3. Nowadays people are alive to certain ulterior consequences that were at first overlooked.
4. She felt so free from ulterior motives that she took up his charge with a touch of resentment.
5. I should have recalled that you are just like me and that you never do anything without an ulterior motive.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ULTERIOR
ulterior
 a.  beyond or outside of immediate interest; coming at a subsequent time or stage
Classic Sentence:
1  I should have recalled that you are just like me and that you never do anything without an ulterior motive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  She felt so free from ulterior motives that she took up his charge with a touch of resentment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
3  Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PROD...
4  Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
5  Hester Prynne remained constant in her resolve to make known to Mr. Dimmesdale, at whatever risk of present pain or ulterior consequences, the true character of the man who had crept into his intimacy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
6  This last he added in passing, and without any ulterior motive, save that it came to him as a happy thought.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  Nowadays people are alive to certain ulterior consequences that were at first overlooked.
2  This lever must serve some ulterior purpose.