yesteryear
Example Sentences
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Artist Alan Nakagawa remembers the grocery truck of yesteryear that fed the city’s immigrant communities — and the stories it inspired.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Analysts of yesteryear also might wonder what happened to Continental, US Airways, Northwest, AirTran, America West and others they used to cover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Before then, it had tended to grow in recent years, although not as quickly or dramatically as it did in the dot-com bubble of yesteryear.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Like the Sirkian melodramas of yesteryear, we go see movies like “Reminders of Him” because they’re highly entertaining — and, more often than not, decently made.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
Networking, one of my mother’s old phrases, musty- slang of yesteryear.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
