Example sentences for: past

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

  • That delirious transcript is part of the story of the triumph of refined sugar over old-fashioned honey that takes up almost half of Sidney Mintz's new book, Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions Into Eating, Culture, and the Past . Mintz, an anthropologist at Johns Hopkins University and author of Sweetness and Power (a more detailed look at sugar and its meaning), also explores other topics, ranging from the broader relationship between political power and food to more idiosyncratic excursions such as the chapter entitled "Color, Taste, and Purity: Some Speculations on the Meanings of Marzipan."

  • Fred Thompson will ask Justice to consider perjury charges against at least six witnesses who testified at his fund-raising hearings this past summer.

  • There is a whole class of Italian surnames that were given to foundlings, including variations of Trovato (trovato past participle of trovare to find; trovatello foundling), Proietto (proietto ejected or rejected), Innocenti , and Nocenti (given to all children taken into Florence's Spedale degli Innocenti orphanage; the name was also given to those who were innocent of evil, or simple-minded), Ignoto ( ignoto unknown), and Esposito or Sposito (esposto exposed), which de Felice has found to be the most common name in Naples.

  • Bennett has done well for his celebrity clients in the past not by convincing juries, but by waging media and lobbying battles on their behalf, often with incredible chutzpah.

  • We look back with amazement at the ignorance and moral obtuseness revealed by what our past leaders have said and our past citizens believed.


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