How to Use bygone in a Sentence

bygone

adjective
Definition of bygonenext
Synonyms for bygonenext
  • The stone wall is from a bygone age.
  • The vibe: The bar still looks a lot like the bygone Hands Down space (minus the neon sign).
    — Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 22 July 2024
  • At the end of the day, Fox credits her life’s work to the bygone era she was raised in.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2024
  • All that stuff seems so quaint and like from a bygone era.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Men in Kilts can’t help but give off echoes of a bygone era.
    — Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The back wall doubles as a whiteboard, still smeared with the grime of bygone notes.
    — WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
  • But the hot dog stand is not an artifact of a bygone era.
    — Amy Cavanaugh, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2023
  • Such Cold War machinations might seem like the stuff of a bygone era.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Here are some of the most popular guns of a bygone era and a new version built to stand the test of time.
    — John Gordon, Outdoor Life, 24 Feb. 2021
  • By the ’60s, the mustangs were regarded as relics of a bygone era.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
  • These days, the idea of a free wine tasting feels like something from a bygone era.
    — Urmila Ramakrishnan, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Instead, there’s something about it that evokes the thought and care paid to the design of bygone eras.
    — Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • This image, like game rentals as a whole, is now a relic of a bygone era.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The 9-to-5 workday, or any semblance of it, seems like a relic of a bygone era.
    — Author: Michelle Davis, Jeff Green, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2020
  • With their war wounds, the characters of Adagio seem like ghosts of a bygone era.
    — Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Even that shooting of 16 years ago belongs to a bygone era.
    — Charlie Campbell / Dili, Timor-Leste, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
  • There is no honor in skipping meals for a bygone, bad idea of style ideals.
    — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2022
  • With an icon of a bygone era at his back, Tyler wields his success like a cudgel.
    — Sheldon Pearc, The New Yorker, 30 June 2021
  • You’d be forgiven for thinking so, but not all the cars on this list are from a bygone era.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The modern broom owes a whole lot to the bygone corn husk and natural fiber designs that first cropped up in the late 1700s.
    — Popular Science, 17 June 2020
  • Pass your favorite bygone beach reads on to friends by holding a book swap.
    — J.a. Kohl, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The concept aims to revive the former glory of a bygone era in Midtown.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Adding a quirky ad during Super Bowl is just par for the course for this holdout from a bygone era.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Yet in some ways, the streets around the Kennedy Recreation Center in Shaw remain the stubborn remnant of a bygone era.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Dillinger and Sutton are figures from a bygone age, when the people who robbed banks didn’t work for them.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The moment felt like a time warp to a bygone era, especially for Plaza.
    — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • For good reason, a bygone era where the health and well-being of the players gave way to the sheer brutality of the game.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Not all brides wore white and not all of their love stories lasted, but these bygone weddings live on as signs of the times and trends.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2023
  • More and more, the notion of the classic American breakfast—bacon, eggs, toast, milk, coffee, and a glass of orange juice—is beginning to seem like a snapshot of a bygone era.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Within its walls, the apartment transforms into a microcosm of a bygone era, a store of history and familial secrets.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025

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