Example sentences for: yesteryear

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

  • Dedicated to games and toys of yesteryear, it is perhaps more suited to adults than children.

  • Here you can enjoy the Algarve of yesteryear and rolling undeveloped countryside, where people still live off the land.

  • Beyond this is the Historical Folk and Art Museum, providing an evocative glimpse at the Crete of yesteryear.

  • After inveighing against the raping and pillaging at Woodstock '99 (a video segment of concert-goers is captioned "250,000 Attendees & Hopped-Up Psychos"), John McLaughlin finds himself waxing nostalgic for the hippies of yesteryear: "At the first Woodstock there was [also] heavy rain, there were [also] people standing around [under a hot sun], there were long lines for food, but they were respectable."

  • Friday night, when comparing the foreign policy paradigm of yesteryear, when the number one enemy of the US was the Soviet Union, to foreign policy threats today, he said: "When I was coming up . . . it was a dangerous world and we knew exactly who they were.


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