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How to use yesteryear in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, adverb

Yesteryear means past years; time gone by; yore. Example: “Flipping through his high school yearbook evoked many a poignant memory of yesteryear.”

Examples of yesteryear by meaning

nounPast years; time gone by; yore.

  • But make no mistake, if Parker and Salmon have their way, boiler suits are the workwear of yesteryear at Babcock.1994 November 5, Ross Tieman, “Yachtsmen on a long-term voyage to recovery”, in The Times, number 65,104, London, page 25
  • Oh, the cozy glow of yesteryear.2022, Ryan Reynolds and The Spirited Ensemble, “Bringin’ Back Christmas”, in Spirited

adverbIn past years.

  • Was it yesteryear or centuries ago that the Orient Express thundered over that narrow, glistening channel and linked the Golden Horn to the Seine?1917 April, Fullerton L[eonard] Waldo, “Embattled Serbia”, in The Forum, volume LVII, New York, N.Y.: The Forum Publishing Company […]...
  • It is similar to those who lived yesteryear (and are living today) after the coming of Christ, who believed (and who do believe) in Him, although He has never been seen in person.1992, V. James Lovalvo, “Role Models of Righteousness in the Book of Mormon”, in James Van Treese, editor, Book of Mormon Reflections...
  • What lives there today provides a clue as to what lived here yesteryear.2005, James Lazell, “Ways of Looking at Diversity”, in Island: Fact and Theory in Nature, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press...

More sentences with yesteryear

  • Flipping through his high school yearbook evoked many a poignant memory of yesteryear.From the entry poignant
  • A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear.2005, oldgoth, “Theaving^([sic]) Goths”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet). From the entry bleep
  • Bringing the drawing to his face, he closed his eyes, inhaling the paper's vellichor, the opium-like smell of yesteryear and childhood.2018, Sam Millar, The Bespoke Hitman. From the entry vellichor
  • Sri Lanka's seamers, like their dibbly-dobblers of yesteryear, gave the speedometer a day off, their deliveries rarely touching 80mph.2006 May 11, Charlie Austin, “Sri Lanka's defective Plan B: What went wrong for Sri Lanka on the first day at Lord's”, in Cricinfo…. From the entry dibbly-dobbler
  • A little like the self-contradictory tag line “Instant Classic,” this series is infused with nowadays nostalgia, a trip back not to yesteryear but yestermonth.2009 January 26, Alessandra Stanley, “A Fictional Ad Agency That Really Hawks [Your Product Name Here]”, in New York Times. From the entry yestermonth
  • Where are the snows of yesteryear?1915, Thomas Burke, “An Entertainment Night: Round the Halls”, in Nights in Town: A London Autobiography, London: George Allen & Unwin…. From the entry old school
  • This validated my decision to stay in touch with my menschy men of yesteryear, none of whom has ever made anything resembling an attempt on my life.2025 February 28, Laura Esther Wolfson, “Rules for Staying Close to Exes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry menschy
  • When it comes to entertainment, Great Yarmouth is still rich with the sorts of curious and yesteryear pastimes you might have assumed died out years ago.2021 August 11, Robert Jackman, “Why now is the time to follow Banksy to Great Yarmouth”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry banger racing
  • The repeat worm plague that came on Lotus Island in a way resembled the plague of locusts in old Egypt and Kindersley from yester-millennium and yesteryear.2016, Jim Warren, Listen to Your Garden, Hidden Dimensions. From the entry yester-millennium
  • And current manfiction certainly gives women a better deal than they got in the pulps of yesteryear, when most were presented as barracuda debs in frilly negligees.2008 October 12, Stephen King, “Who Says Real Men Don't Read?”, in Entertainment Weekly. From the entry manfiction
  • The white ruling class of yesteryear also manifested this prejudice in favour of the Chinese, in that the Chinese were the first to penetrate the inner circle of 'whitehood'.1978, Winston Mahabir, In and Out of Politics, page 210. From the entry whitehood
  • Clothing companies like Homage (which reproduces vintage-esque T's celebrating sports and pop culture from the '70s through the '90s) came up with unique ways to commercialize the interest in yesteryear.2010 November 21, Kevin Alexander, “The secret to selling cool”, in Boston Globe. From the entry retrophilia

Meaning of yesteryear

  1. noun Past years; time gone by; yore.
  2. noun Last year.
  3. adverb In past years.

Full definition of yesteryear

Questions about yesteryear in a sentence

How do you use yesteryear in a sentence?
Yesteryear is used as a noun and adverb. For example: “Flipping through his high school yearbook evoked many a poignant memory of yesteryear.”
What is a short sentence with yesteryear?
“Oh, the cozy glow of yesteryear.”
What does yesteryear mean?
Yesteryear means past years; time gone by; yore.

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