bygone - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • let: It was, some people said, time to let bygones be bygones, time to forget.

Adjective modifier

  • domestic: Visitors begin their tour in the reconstructed cruck house which houses the museum's collection of domestic bygones.
  • rural: He has a particular interest in ancient crafts and industries and he collects and restores rural bygones.
  • other: Other bygones cast completely from one's mind were a burden of which one were well rid.

Modifies a noun

  • era: Possibly more typical of a bygone era School of Dance, no less.
  • age: The cafĂ© is the remnant of a bygone age - 1936 to be precise.
  • days.: Working crafts people and a 12,000 sq. ft. museum depicting life in bygone days. Licensed coffee shop, Gift Shop & Plant Sales.
  • day: Across the square notice the Beaufort Hotel which in bygone days was the coaching inn for the town.
  • generation: Many children today do not receive the teaching that children of a bygone generation received.
  • time: The place reminded us of bygone times - long past.

Modifying Another Word

  • seemingly: Tens of thousands of people were emboldened by the participatory praxis of the seemingly bygone anti-capitalist movement.

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