bygone
noun
Examples of bygone in a Sentence
the bygone days of our ancestors
The stone wall is from a bygone age.
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Photo : Darin Schnabel, courtesy of RM Sotheby's The interior is evocative of a bygone era where toggle switches were standard and seat belts were optional.
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Robert Ross, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2025
Childhood under threat As a child worker, Miss Huang might seem like an uncanny ghost of a bygone era of childhood.
—Anna Mae Duane, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
In the era of ubiquitous smartphones and omnichannel social media presence, business cards, once viewed as an essential tool of successful networking, have begun to seem like quaint relics of a bygone era.
—Benjamin Claeys, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris play characters carved out of granite — monuments of a bygone era that maybe should be swept aside by civility and industrialization.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
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Robert Ross, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2025
Childhood under threat As a child worker, Miss Huang might seem like an uncanny ghost of a bygone era of childhood.
—Anna Mae Duane, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
In the era of ubiquitous smartphones and omnichannel social media presence, business cards, once viewed as an essential tool of successful networking, have begun to seem like quaint relics of a bygone era.
—Benjamin Claeys, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris play characters carved out of granite — monuments of a bygone era that maybe should be swept aside by civility and industrialization.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bygone
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“Bygone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bygone. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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