Example sentences for: bygone

How can you use “bygone” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Southwest of the park, Chéticamp is an old stronghold of Acadian culture, with a museum exhibiting craftware as it was crocheted, spun, hooked, or woven in bygone centuries.

  • So many people in bygone days, both famous and infamous, have enriched English vocabulary through their names.

  • Yet the Mach 3 is not the sort of retro design that evokes bygone imagery of progress with self-conscious irony.

  • Taking page 17 again, I was reminded that Giles is rather given to semi-serious poetic diction at times, and we find him referring to the presence of water in the Finke River as “the stream purling over its stony floor” or, quoting some bygone poet, “brightly the brook through the green leaflets, giddy with joyousness, dances along.”

  • But it is probably the attitudes revealed that already place these books in a bygone age: Arrival at the coast gives us I want to go ashore; carry my loads ; on safari there is Pitch all the white men's tents in line ; and Fanagalo phrases for golf include Move your shadow, Don't rattle the bag , and Have you caddied before?


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