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
• The knolls are crowned with scrub oak and the slopes are swept bare from a long-ago fire.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
• 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
• By season’s end, your current era will feel like a whole ’nother long-ago lifetime.
  — Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
• 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
• No quotes from long-ago laureates in this one — just Colby’s own brilliance.
  — Drew Goins, Washington Post, 2 July 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
• In each show, we’re plunged into a louche, long-ago decade, in which drug-fuelled, antic musicians make art as though the world were ending.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Now two of these nurseries are gone, casualties of a long-ago state budget crisis.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Evidence of one ancient example still exists around the edges of the Himalayas, where long-ago river capture eroded deep gorges.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024

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long ago

2 of 2 noun

• Sparse shoots of grass have long ago grown over the dirt.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 10 July 2024
• Not that long ago, there was O’Doul’s and Sharp's, and that was it.
  — Nicole Haase, Journal Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
• The group long ago stopped trying to catch the last owlet.
  — Zachary T. Sampson, Sun Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The decade wasn’t that long ago, but there’s already been signs that point to yes.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2022
• That’s one lesson boomers seem to have learned long ago.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2023
• The windows and doors had long ago been blown out from the force of nearby blasts.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Not long ago, the world was on track to eliminate hunger.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• Once, long ago, a creature not quite human walked the Earth.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• Not that long ago, pitchers had teeth pulled to treat their arms.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• Once upon a time, long ago, the world was encased in ice.
  — Veronique Greenwood, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Bouie saw her son have one of these nightmares not too long ago.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 9 May 2024
• 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
• In that playground, long ago, there’d been a saying: true as tripe.
  — Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• 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
• To tell you how long ago that was, Sanchez Vicario has been retired since 2002.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
• And while most voters long ago made up their minds, a sliver of the electorate has yet to make a choice.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 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
• Well, not too long ago, there was even talk about season three of the beloved series being the last.
  — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 20 Apr. 2024
• Context: How long ago was the region's last direct hit?
  — Jeff Weiner, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
• But as much as the summer’s movies were about franchises long ago, the studio has one eye very much on the future.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024