BYGONE in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for BYGONE, such as:

1. The buildings reflect the elegance of a bygone era.
2. Host and guest embraced three times, according to a bygone custom of Russia.
3. Much as I have objected to him in bygone days, I agree with you now, you may be sure.
4. In all the seven bygone years, Hester Prynne had never before been false to the symbol on her bosom.
5. He received me, like a man who had formed my mind in bygone years, and had always loved me tenderly.

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 Meanings and Examples of BYGONE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bygone
 a.  past; gone by
Classic Sentence:
1  In all the seven bygone years, Hester Prynne had never before been false to the symbol on her bosom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
2  She tried to hold up after that; and many a time, when they told her she was thoughtless and light-hearted, made believe to be so; but it was all a bygone then.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
3  After tea the children left us; and we three sat together, talking of the bygone days.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 60. AGNES
4  He received me, like a man who had formed my mind in bygone years, and had always loved me tenderly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
5  There are no words to describe her save the old ones that have served so often to picture the bygone heroine of romance and the fair lady of our dreams.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  But he failed to impose upon the Colonel, and was even far from impressing him with this trumped-up knowledge of bygone days.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
7  He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  Much as I have objected to him in bygone days, I agree with you now, you may be sure.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
9  A steep, boulder-sprinkled hill lay upon the right which had in bygone days been cut into a granite quarry.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
10  My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
11  He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little friends of those bygone days.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET
12  The peaceful face reflected somewhat of peace and healing into his own spirit, and his thoughts wandered away to bygone times and dreamy memories.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  This was evidently the portion of the castle occupied by the ladies in bygone days, for the furniture had more air of comfort than any I had seen.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Host and guest embraced three times, according to a bygone custom of Russia.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
15  "Let bygones be bygones," said Mr. Henchy.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
Example Sentence:
1  The buildings reflect the elegance of a bygone era.