on the eve of

1. Just prior to, as in On the eve of the conference the main speaker backed out. This expression uses eve, literally “the night before,” more loosely. [Late 1700s]

Example Sentences

On the eve of the wedding, she was photographed wearing the most fashionable garment of the 1960s: the miniskirt.

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On the eve of a top-level meeting in Paris, John Healey told the BBC in Kyiv that Ukraine's allies would "help make the skies safe, to make the seas safe, and to secure the land", once a peace deal had been struck.

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Financial troubles during the off-season led to the club requesting an advance on their 2025 distribution payments, while a consortium led by Swiss businessman Dario Berta completed a takeover of the Red Devils on the eve of the 2025 season.

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Horner has always denied the claims and an internal Red Bull investigation dismissed the allegations on the eve of the 2024 F1 season.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have kicked off bilateral talks in Beijing, on the eve of a massive military parade in the Chinese capital.

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