Example sentences for: bygone

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

  • An article longs for the bygone days of rock "concept" albums.

  • Like some smutty art film of a bygone era, Crash arrives on American screens preceded by lurid headlines--hailed at Cannes, banned in England, its U.S. release nearly aborted by Ted Turner.

  • 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.”

  • What I paid for it is a bygone.

  • In the modern age, and especially in the modern newspaper, the pursuit of money takes on the full aura that was, in a bygone time, reserved for the pursuit of something else.


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