Example sentences for: olden

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

  • It isn't even necessary to be given these names at birth, because there cannot have been so many Smiths in olden times and I have a suspicion that some people give themselves new names when they take a new job where nobody knows them.

  • This might sound like I'm calling for a return to olden times, when medical decisions were nobody's business except the doctor's and the patient's.

  • Historical films are usually kind to the olden days, updating the principal women's clothes so the actresses look attractive by modern standards.

  • R. Millar [ibid., 22] says there cannot have been so many smiths in olden times.

  • In olden days, only brigands and pirates ventured out here, their ruined redoubts and look-out towers still dotting the hillsides and promontories.


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