of an earlier time

Example Sentences

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But they are reminders of an earlier time, when it was important to keep coins — another relic of a bygone era — in your pocket.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

But Nolan says his goal was to ensure accuracy without the 100-million-dollar film feeling like a caricature of an earlier time.

From National Geographic • Jul. 28, 2023

While the ceremony often felt like the relic of an earlier time, the procedures gave a nod to the foundations of the modern British state.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2022

Charlottesville friends were quick to assure us that these statues didn't reflect the true feelings of the city's current population, but were just artistic vestiges of an earlier time.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2020

I tapped my fingers on the desktop, preferring to fall back into my daydream of an earlier time filled with raised hands, muffled giggles, lessons yet to be learned, and lives yet to be lived.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool