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:

  • 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?

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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