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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • This is, admittedly, just a single line from a long-ago interview, but it suggests that the Clintons are locked into a denial.


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