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
Dimly, he remembered reading about that; in the olden days they had believed in canals on Mars.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
