Example sentences for: long-ago

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

  • By the late nineteenth century, these uses of great and small became obsolete, but to go great guns continued to allude to the loudness, forcefulness, and large size of long-ago cannons and still means to `proceed with considerable momentum, to go full steam ahead, at full bore.

  • A suggestion: If the press is looking for embarrassing questions to ask presidential candidates about their long-ago past, how about this one, arguably much more relevant to presidential performance than ancient drug use: What were your SAT scores?

  • Like many long-ago happenings, nobody thought to make a permanent record.

  • This would complete the return and vindication of the company's prodigal son, who had lost a long-ago power struggle with former Apple CEO John Sculley.

  • More heartening was the revelation in both papers that a white woman famously captured in a 1957 photograph cursing the entering black students was present to publicly apologize for her long-ago actions.


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