Example sentences for: olden

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • The island of Burano is a simple fishing village, true haven of tranquility, though the olden days of ladies making lace on the doorsteps of their brightly colored houses, artists on the quay and no hustlers is all but history.


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