How to Use the past in a Sentence

the past

noun

• Over the past five days, the field has grown from six to eight.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• Once again a free safety set to fill the shoes of the great Steelers of the past.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
• In the past week alone, more than 800 shoppers have added the shirt to their carts.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• Auston Matthews has eighth points (five goals) in the past five games for the Leafs. ...
  — Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2023
• Even writing about him in the past tense doesn’t make sense.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2024
• A lot has changed for Samara Joy over the past four years.
  — Andrea Velarde, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
• In the past month alone, more than 1,000 shoppers have added it to their carts.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2023
• He’s now sent 29 tunes to the tally throughout the past decade-plus.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• There are so many [mom] athletes in the past that just get tuned out.
  — Maya Davis, CNN, 28 July 2024
• Over the past eight years, Carter has faced his share of health challenges.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• The average length of a game has grown by more than a half-hour in the past 50 years.
  — USA Today, 28 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, shares of Uber are down almost 4% in the past month.
  — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2024
• However, much of the procession looks of the present, not the past.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
• Today in history Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.
  — The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2024
• More than 500 shoppers have purchased it just in the past month.
  — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
• The artist had received treatment for cancer in the past.
  — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 26 Nov. 2023
• Dozens of restaurants have opened in Keller over the past five years, many of them local.
  — Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2024
• For sure, there’s much more control over media than in the past.
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2023
• That’s different than in the past; the mayor has pushed those hard.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023
• Here are three of our most eye-catching stories from the past week.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
• That’s the question that’s roiled Hollywood for more than the past year.
  — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2024
• In the past year, both Karol and Bunny have scored No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2023
• And that is in a state that has gone through a decidedly red shift in the past few years.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
• But in the past year, there have been only three days in which the mercury fell further.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
• In the past, it was confused with other gems, such as topaz and emerald.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• Springer has denied any plans to run for governor in the past.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
• Arizona has the home field advantage, but that hasn’t helped them out for the past two games.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• In the past, that kind of excuse would never have fooled her mother.
  — Nell Freudenberger, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
• Williams has been playing well all season, but he’s been on fire over the past couple of weeks.
  — Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 2 Dec. 2024
• The decision to cancel Maryland retirees’ prescription drug coverage had been delayed the past couple of years in the courts pending the result of a legal decision.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024