لفظ "حال ہی میں" کا لغت میں معنی ہے "حال ہی میں؛ کچھ عرصہ پہلے نہیں"۔ سیاق و سباق کے لحاظ سے اس سے مراد ماضی قریب میں، اکثر آخری چند دنوں، ہفتوں یا مہینوں میں ہوتا ہے۔ مثال کے طور پر، "میں نے اسے حال ہی میں نہیں دیکھا" کا مطلب ہے کہ آپ نے اسے حال ہی میں نہیں دیکھا، یا "حال ہی میں، میں ہر وقت تھکا ہوا محسوس کر رہا ہوں" کا مطلب ہے کہ آپ حال ہی میں تھکاوٹ محسوس کر رہے ہیں۔
1. Have there been any new recruits lately that look shifty?
2. But lately, something else was going on with Mama.
3. Lately, it felt as though all I did was go up and down stairs.
4. However, lately our summers have been very dry and warm.
5. The more I tried to help people lately, the more screwed up my life became.
6. The cats had been restless lately, Harry believed it was because of the lack of food.
7. My relationship with Derik has changed considerably for the better lately.
8. I think you may be a bit deficient, due to all the stress lately.
9. To be sure, some bones which were thought to be human, mixed up with a quantity of odd-looking rubbish, had been lately discovered in a retired situation to the east of Rotterdam, and some people went so far as to imagine that in this spot a foul murder had been committed, and that the sufferers were in all probability Hans Pfaall and his associates.
10. I could only account for all this by extending my theory, and supposing that the highly rarefied atmosphere around might perhaps not be, as I had taken for granted, chemically insufficient for the purposes of life, and that a person born in such a medium might, possibly, be unaware of any inconvenience attending its inhalation, while, upon removal to the denser strata near the earth, he might endure tortures of a similar nature to those I had so lately experienced.