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:

  • While writing Big Trouble , the late Pulitzer Prize-winner J. Anthony Lukas, who took his own life in June this year, may have sensed that readers in the conservative 1990s would resist being reminded about these ferocious, long-ago American upheavals.

  • George Bush was not asked that day in Akron, Ohio, about "long-ago cocaine abuse," and my story did not say he had been.

  • These proposals also failed, as I remember (from long-ago reading), by a close margin.

  • 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?

  • Many family names are patronymics, so called because they are based on the first name of some long-ago father.


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