bygone days
Example Sentences
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The word “Kościuszko”—like “BQE,” “McGuinness-Humboldt” and, in bygone days, “the Elmhurst tanks”—can strike fear in the hearts of longtime New York commuters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
The museum allows visitors to travel back in time to look around replica towns, villages and working landscapes from bygone days, meeting costumed staff and volunteers to experience stories of everyday life.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025
I have made progress since those bygone days, but I still manage to get the batter down the sides — rarely a nice, clean entry for me.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2025
There are no real demons here, only those insubstantial ones from bygone days — unforgiven betrayals, old jealousies, unforgotten guilt — that bedevil the present.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2023
In bygone days, you might have had your knuckles rapped for saying “It’s me” instead of “It is I.”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
