in the olden days
Example Sentences
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"I do have to deal with quite a lot of incoming, what you would have called flak in the olden days, but now they call it trolling," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025
As in the olden days of radio, casting is unrelated to physical type, age or even gender.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2021
But in the olden days, he added, “life expectancy was much, much shorter and people died of infections before they ever could get cancer.”
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2021
"The most amazing thing about the Hawaiians, is back in the olden days they had more people living there and living off the land," says Keolanui.
From Salon • Jul. 14, 2021
He’s heard stories about this sort of thing happening in the olden days, but in his lifetime the power underground never fails.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
