How to Use long-ago in a Sentence

long-ago

1 of 2 adjective

• There was a grassy smell, the long-ago seeping out of the earth.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Bringing Duvall back to the Bay would right a long-ago wrong.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
• That was back when things were different, in the long-ago world of 2014 or so.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• This book holds a special place in my heart as my long-ago intro to the genre.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• Then the long-ago baseball lessons from his mother kicked in.
  — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• The plot of land’s long-ago owner came up with a direct method of keeping the outside world at bay.
  — Bob Greene, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2023
• My long-ago ancestors may very well have enjoyed the fruit.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• Indeed, faint outlines of long-ago lakes have been spotted in the region.
  — Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• One of them remembered me from a long-ago visit and greeted me like the prodigal son.
  — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
• The question of what took place in the boy’s bedroom that day during their long-ago childhood haunts NDiaye’s book.
  — Katie Kitamura, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2023
• His section on cholera opens with his own long-ago purchase of a book, in Paris, on Marcel Proust’s father, Adrien.
  — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Browse the museum, hike the trails — the Tower Trail takes you to the site of the long-ago observation tower — then check out the town’s art galleries and murals.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
• In a long-ago interview, the director Mike Nichols cautioned a nascent film reviewer to not mistake the dancer for the dance.
  — Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• At a Michigan orchard, a woman tells her three daughters about a long-ago romance.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Cloutier said these beings are integral to the story and leftovers from that long-ago era.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• The former is a long-ago time when the universe was just a sea of neutral hydrogen gas; the latter a slightly later time when the first stars turned on.
  — Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• On that long-ago October afternoon, Willy told me about back-breaking farm work, long hot days and long cold nights.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023
• That long-ago King William Parade was filled with memorable moments.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Mar. 2023
• Fonda’s Vivian, with her chic shag hair and spiky wit to match, had found love with her long-ago paramour, played by a very winning Don Johnson; the two are now set to be married.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 May 2023
• Green has become the modern-day equivalent of Bill Laimbeer, the long-ago center on the bad-boy Detroit Pistons.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
• Yet the long-ago Fed chair and his contemporaries mostly believed that the Fed’s vast power should be used in a limited way.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• The amendment permits lawsuits over long-ago conduct to be filed during a two-year window that began on March 1.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Don’t blame or shame – but explain your interpretation of this long-ago event.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2023
• When a conversation looms up before you as something staked with boundary posts, barbed wire flecked with the fleece and blood from long-ago tussles?
  — Ian Penman, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Marie Irvine was 99 years old when a chapter in her long-ago career became a TikTok sensation.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
• This discovery leads to his big idea: saving his mother from a long-ago senseless murder.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2023
• Being tossed out a window and covered in debris is now as much a part of its history as the glitz and glamour of long-ago gatherings.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• Doing so explains how the dragon established the pact with a long-ago king (Matt Slack) that has called for so many royal sacrifices.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
• That long-ago episode has affected every crisis that came after it, and the now-much-larger and more boring world of hedge funds, for better or worse.
  — WSJ, 25 Sep. 2023
• Dear Amy: My long-ago ex-husband’s father recently died.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023

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long ago

2 of 2 noun

• Not too long ago, the Coastal League was among the county’s best.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
• Germany was the trading hotspot of the world not too long ago.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
• But actions long ago set the stage for the bulk of the increases.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• There was a time—and not very long ago—that would have scoffed at 11% growth.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
• That’s one lesson boomers seem to have learned long ago.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2023
• The answer to that question, the agency says, is not too long ago.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• And the Kremlin long ago gave up caring about its image in the West.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• Once, long ago, a creature not quite human walked the Earth.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• The old courthouse, which long ago served as a custom house for trade ships.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
• The bruises from his time as a hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran faded long ago.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
• Seawater can flood the tower and breakers pound the roof and broke the glass long ago.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2023
• At 35 years old, Kershaw long ago lost the mid-90s mph life his fastball used to boast.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• But on a global scale, that price shock ended long ago.
  — Paul Wiseman and Evelyne Musambi, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
• To dream and to own Owning a home seemed a fantasy not too long ago, Sanders said.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2024
• People made up their minds about Mulkey long ago, so trying to set the record straight would just be a waste of time.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• Any one of these predators might have long ago dragged the skinks into the Wellington Caves, where the fossils were found.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
• In many cases, it was spent long ago to pay bills because people were out of work at the time.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• Columbus Day was long ago kneecapped, thrown in the trunk of a car, and dumped in a scrapyard somewhere in New Jersey.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• But wee moons, it was thought, should have lost their meager embers long ago.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
• Much of it is the result of the kinds of thunderstorms that John Nance and his Braniff colleagues long ago strove to avoid.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• For Bottas, 34, his interest in a project like this was sparked long ago.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2023
• There was a time not too long ago when the only skirt fashion insiders wanted to wear was the length of a blink.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 July 2023
• The device, no bigger than a credit card, had long ago succumbed to the spider web of cracks on its screen.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2023
• Fortifications built by the British in the 1600s were reclaimed long ago by the jungle.
  — Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Darlene has worked there for over 25 years and met Jim long ago when his band was performing at the space, known as TJ's Lounge.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2023
• Much of downtown San Francisco is built on the remains of sunken ships left behind when the bay was filled in long ago.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2023
• Its black hole would have stopped growing long ago, Wolf writes in the Conversation.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• One apartment frequently catches fire, but the stairs on the fire escape were sawed off and sold as scrap long ago.
  — John Eligon, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• It was deemed a vital business driver and commanded above-the-fold ink not that long ago.
  — Guy Courtin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Children or adults may have a fear of animals, such as rodents, that stems from long ago.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024