How to Use yesteryear in a Sentence

yesteryear

noun

• The byproducts from the town gas of yesteryear laced the site.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• The big man of yesteryear can plant his size 17s on the low block and go to work from there.
  — USA Today, 22 Apr. 2021
• Part of the shift has to do with the zinfandels of yesteryear.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
• This cropped curly look with blunt bangs pays homage to silent movie stars of yesteryear.
  — Yaa Bofah, Good Housekeeping, 15 July 2021
• And, much like the child movie stars of yesteryear, these idols are not seeing all the profits.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2019
• What used to be considered the best golf shirts and pants of yesteryear are long gone.
  — Michael Loré, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2023
• Think of it as your prep for the water cooler chats of yesteryear.
  — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 10 Apr. 2023
• Gone is the climate of yesteryear, and there’s no going back.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
• This just in: Rose gold and gold fixtures might also be a thing of yesteryear.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 14 Dec. 2022
• Check out some images from the galas of yesteryear before the glamorous and glitzy event this evening.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 2 May 2022
• Join host King Kaufman and some special guests for a trip to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
  — SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
• With no games on the schedule for nearly three straight weeks, sports fans are turning to some of the great games of yesteryear.
  — Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2020
• These projects have gone mainstream in ways that fans of yesteryear could only have dreamed of.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Week, 28 June 2022
• The CTOs of yesteryear tended to be geeks (in the most complimentary sense of the word).
  — Kris Fitzgerald, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• So, too, were yesteryear stars of every sport Ward wrote about.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2022
• For a romantic stay with yesteryear ambiance and charm, try the Planters Inn, which was built in 1844.
  — Chris Dwyer, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
• While the automats of yesteryear are gone, the devotion to fast food remains — but there’s been a shift.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2022
• The Opry City Stage is a venue that has such a cool way of merging the music of yesteryear with the music of tomorrow.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 30 May 2018
• Many of the poisons of today were the miracle cures of yesteryear.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
• This year's phones have flat edges like the iPhone 4 and 5 of yesteryear, as well as support for 5G wireless networks.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2020
• Plus, its central land is named Discovery Island, in what seems to be a nod to the park of yesteryear.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2022
• For those who have fallen prey to swapping out their decor as the trends come and go, this return to a style of yesteryear can’t come soon enough.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2022
• For one week, the Cornhuskers looked like of those Nebraska teams of yesteryear.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2019
• Christie’s is a symbol of yesteryear—and yet the company appears to be on the cutting edge.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 30 July 2021
• That is distant yesteryear, possibly to the detriment of the two sports.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2021
• England didn’t have to look far to find ghosts of yesteryear, for there was one standing on its own sideline.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 3 July 2018
• And his singing had the assurance of one of the great R&B powerhouses of yesteryear.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2022
• Discuss the good old days of yesteryear in East Hampton, or just listen.
  — courant.com, 5 Apr. 2022
• While the swing skirts of the yesteryear were replaced with low-rise, sequined Bermuda shorts and signature tweed ensembles, the evening felt sublimely timeless.
  — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
• The Chia Pet has occasionally been described as an artifact of a now-chintzy cultural yesteryear.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 30 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024