time out of mind

Example Sentences

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The alligator lizards and their prey live on together, as they have since time out of mind.

From New York Times

So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind.

From New York Times

“Oh, yes; the family have always been respected here. Almost all the land in this neighbourhood, as far as you can see, has belonged to the Rochesters time out of mind.”

From Literature

This all happened long, long ago, in time out of mind, in the days when the gods still walked the earth.

From Literature

As Max Weber observed, it is the very longevity of patriarchal traditions and norms that serve to prop it up – “the belief in the inviolability of that which has existed from time out of mind”.

From The Guardian