How To Use Bygone In A Sentence

Airs of bygone times accompany farandoles around the flames over which the boldest leap with a single bound.
The early morning sound of the bell reminds you of the ice-cream wallah of a bygone era.
Do not cracksmen, when assembled together, entertain themselves with stories of glorious old burglaries which they or bygone heroes have committed? Roundabout Papers
He has deemed himself a failure and largely abandoned literature, but Jed's portrait of him captures his bygone intensity—"he appears to be in a trance, possessed by a fury that some have not hesitated to describe as demoniac. Reflections on Self-Regard
One character grew particularly animated, becoming red-faced as he struggled to contain the words that burst forth, recalling Offaly teams from bygone eras who had fought so bravely with their scant resources. FIRECRACKER

The exhibition on the theme of growing up in a small fishing village looked at stories of truancy, illness and religion and what children of those bygone days did during their leisure time.
Now the houses of these bygone families have become a focus for visiting tourists and history buffs.
The book contains many photographs of bygone times and also includes former electric tramways in the area.
Forget about the argument you two had, just let bygones be bygones and be friends again.
The beach is deserted but for a stubborn few, and this Soviet edifice is now but a window to a bygone era.
Their attention to the minor details of everyday life paints a far more vivid picture of bygone days than any history book.
In bygone days, population changes (with the exception of immigration) might come down to a simple matter of which areas were "outbreeding" the others. The Moderate Voice
As the youth is guided to his bed, he is assaulted by ‘unspeakable odors’ that seem to be ‘the fumes from a thousand bygone debauches’.
The Colonel is a self-fashioned sleuth who seems to belong to a bygone era.
It hovers perilously close to cheesy at times (think animal prints and acres of marble), but it positively reeks of a bygone era.
Each is a period evocation, a study of a bygone performance style, full of peculiar details of very precise flamboyance.
However, we were told that you would make full restitution for the damage you have caused to us and, if that is the case, we are not unwilling to let bygones be bygones.
When the book was republished in the UK last year, it was intended as a quirky insight into a bygone era. Times, Sunday Times
One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse, it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast's history.
Wealthy Britons pay tens of thousands to bag a lion, elephant or polar bear in trophy hunts that recreate images of a bygone colonial era
The steam locomotive evokes nostalgic memories of a bygone era with its glory and old age charm.
It raps a defector over the knuckles instantly but, after that, lets bygones be bygones.
For instance, pioneer caller ID spoofer Lucky255 used it to switch his caller ID to 867-5309/Jenny from the bygone pop band Tommy Tutone.
The early part of the 1990s, when monarchism dared not speak its name and supporters of the Crown felt as though they were a beleaguered minority, seems like a bygone age.
In the great medieval households of bygone days the Seneschal was in charge of the castle, estate or home.
He asked residents to send in any photos, slides or images of the area from bygone days.
The whodunit is fun, but as with the entire Honorable Daisy Dalrymple saga it is the sense of time and place that brings enthralled readers to a bygone era. Black Ship-Carola Dunn « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Between April and October, the town crier issues a daily proclamation at the High Cross, where in bygone times you would have found bear-baiting, stocks and a whipping post.
Their knowledge of ancient languages gave them access to the esoteric writings of bygone ages, writings which supposedly contained secret knowledge about the nature of the world. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
Even worse, while the Air Force wants more fighters from a bygone era, it has been underbuying the drones that will rule the skies in the future. The Moderate Voice
It is a relic of a bygone age, a cultural icon with a colorful political past.
In a bygone era the postmen and staff of Frensham Post Office lined up for this photo call.
Carmarthen's street scenes reflect bygone years as do its placenames.
In bygone days many stoats were slaughtered to provide skins for ermine robes.
The astonishing collection of antiques, bygones and collectibles of Lincolnshire artist is expected to attract hundreds of fans.
In those buried and bygone days, it was an affront and an offense to join with separatists to defeat a corrupt government.
Moreover, English class society of a bygone era seems a relatively easy target.
The extravaganza uses big band, spotlight glitz and dancing girls to capture the magic of a bygone time.
These are often smaller objects like ceramics or glass but it could be anything from a bygone era. The Sun
Many superheroes of bygone eras possess powers that exist in some way in the natural world or derive from real inventions.
He depicts Bill as acting like a mensh, responding with "warm words, letting the hurts of the primary be bygones. Carol Felsenthal: Is Obama Following Gore and Kerry and Keeping His Distance from Bill Clinton?
In bygone days, a whale bone was used but tended to snap. Times, Sunday Times
Not less reminiscent of many bygone ages are the ornamentation and decorative details; and in the rooms, statuary plundered from the Greek islands or brought by the Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands
The story of whaling in Eden is much more than just a story about a bygone industry or even a story about an amazing partnership between man and beast.
Real memories nicely counterpoint any simplistic views of bygone mores. Times, Sunday Times
Less restraint was shown in bygone days, when shark attacks sometimes inspired mass waves of indiscriminate killing.
His imagination was fevered, he thought of himself as a knight from a bygone era and moved around like one, riding a ragged horse.
Conservatives have so often cried "socialism!" that it's now nothing more than a bygone has-been of a warning - a cheap and lazy namedrop, a wilted way to self-identify as a bootstraps-and-heartland sort of citizen. FITSNews
The fragmented pieces of captured text are projected onto a blank white wall to create subtly shifting images suggestive of bygone worlds.
Most of us love to read letters because, like photographs, they give us a sense of intimacy with bygone times and people we have not known. A Short Guide to Writing About History
Far from being a relic of a bygone age, they are the future for deployed operations. Times, Sunday Times
And so Sabre again turned to Jim Taylor to design a daysailor with the style and elegance of sailing yachts of a bygone era, and added to the design mandate blending the performance of a youthful sport boat with "grown-up" ease of handling available with today's modern sailing hardware. WN.com - Business News
This looking backward and preference for bygone days involved more than nostalgic or homesick longings.
Most of us love to read letters because, like photographs, they give us a sense of intimacy with bygone times and people we have not known. A Short Guide to Writing About History
Those that are still around us bear the imprint of the chemical composition of the protogalaxy in their atmospheres, like living fossils of a bygone era in the history of the Earth.
Perhaps a caretaker had lived here with his family, in the bygone days of Soviet power. Somewhere East of Life
Since the reprise of coach John Robinson, who brought national championships in a different, bygone era.
Taylor to design a daysailor with the style and elegance of sailing yachts of a bygone era, and added to the design mandate blending the performance of a youthful sport boat with WN.com - Business News
This is a show that, despite its bygone English rural setting, is without nostalgia or sentimentality.
Since the reprise of coach John Robinson, who brought national championships in a different, bygone era.
There are plenty of houses and churches where you can soak up the carefully arranged atmosphere of bygone Bloomsbury.
In those buried and bygone days, it was an affront and an offense to join with separatists to defeat a corrupt government.
Yes, this is a faux period piece, with extravagant costumes and peachy Technicolor colours from bygone movies.
Just a fond memory of a bygone time? The Sun
If you thought that puns, acrostics, charades, et cetera were quaint relics from a bygone era, then think again as Robert Dessaix brings us up to date on Word Games.
Today's corporate globalism, promising to improve the lives of the downtrodden, resembles the communist globalism of a bygone era.
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Celebrities give up their luxurious lifestyles to experience life in a bygone era. The Sun
Straus' style evokes a bygone era, her language lyric, her ruminations bittersweet and poetic.
A decade later the vision would be modified to reflect the glories of a bygone era, and the tragedies of interrupted lives and unfulfilled destinies.
Celebrities give up their luxurious lifestyles to experience life in a bygone era. The Sun
It gives us some delineations of bygone manners and social changes, glimpses of many more or less notable persons, and above all the record of a life which, without being in the usual sense of these terms eventful or distinguished, stands forth as one in a great degree self-determined and bearing a strong impress of individuality. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
The scientific misnomer is now reduced to a historical (and extremely harmful) moniker of a bygone era. Comparing Teleological Predictions with their Non-teleological Counterparts
In many ways it seems to hark back to a bygone age, with its wine, cigars and unashamed donnishness.
The buildings reflect the elegance of a bygone era.
But thrust an historical document about bygone yesteryears down our memory lane and we can't get enough.
A club who are at last trying to recapture the glory nights of a bygone era. Times, Sunday Times
And is it really the business of government to prop up the ancient memorials of a bygone era?
It is an archaic remainder of a bygone age which has no place in modern New Zealand.
With his bow-tied, moustachioed, immaculate turnout he seemed a figure from a bygone age.
To watch Waugh bat is to be reminded of a bygone era in Australian cricket, a time when they were made to graft for every run and sweat for every victory.
He shakes his head at the thought of these bygone decencies now fallen into desuetude.
You have to admit that there's something fascinating about dinosaurs, those lumbering reptilian giants of a bygone age.
Her lifestyle doesn't come into her career, and it is a bit of a throwback to a bygone age to suppose it should. Times, Sunday Times
It is a relic of a bygone age, a cultural icon with a colorful political past.
Recollections of bygones are merely threatening to stalk him in the here and now.
The poet also dreams nostalgically of bygone years and of lost childhood.
It had originally belonged to one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the county, for a strictly modern house, without a vestige of antiqueness lingering in its halls and with no faint aroma of bygone days pervading its atmosphere, would have been entirely too plebeian to suit the tastes of Hugh Mainwaring. That Mainwaring Affair
The long skirts, the demure looks, the curled tresses, the composure, the sensuality, the shy glance - these are all so hauntingly remindful of a bygone era.
Another part of the appeal of the knitting circle, it would seem, is that it's a timeout from the pace of modern life; its cadences those of a bygone era, its rewards measured in something other than money or recognition. Men With Yarns to Tell
It even installed several icons on the desktop hawking the company and other bygones.
These groups would be at risk of becoming mere anecdotes; anachronisms of a bygone time and a lifestyle that is passing.
When the book was republished in the UK last year, it was intended as a quirky insight into a bygone era. Times, Sunday Times
Villagers are appealing for bygones and curios as they take their plans for a madcap ‘inland regatta’ a step forward.
People who dislike contemporary art often complain that it will not endure like the masterpieces of bygone eras. Times, Sunday Times
In bygone days, a whale bone was used but tended to snap. Times, Sunday Times
So I'll play safe and stick to a simple list: brown bent, totter, sheep's fescue, crested dog's tail, cock's foot, sweet vernal, soft brome – poetic names of common hay meadow grasses that reflect a bygone era of agriculture. Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates
Pearloid sheet has been used for the scratchplate, again reminiscent of bygone days.
He shakes his head at the thought of these bygone decencies now fallen into desuetude.
I remember the covers, too, evocative old-style paintings of girls in clothing redolent of a bygone era, so unlike what we wore in the 1960s that it added another layer of exotic mystery.
Never pays much attention does Anglia - more interested in his farming diary or talking about bygones.
The painful ache of regrets and bygones slowly fade into a mixture of brandy and honey.
This is a show that, despite its bygone English rural setting, is without nostalgia or sentimentality.
There should be no more braying at our opponents in the House of Commons like pinstriped pubescents from a bygone age.
Their knowledge of ancient languages gave them access to the esoteric writings of bygone ages, writings which supposedly contained secret knowledge about the nature of the world. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
They have all sorts of interesting stories to tell about bygone days: airplane travel that required you to wear a parachute, ration points to buy food during WWII, inkwells and pigtails, Skelly and boxball, communism, nuclear, and Smallpox scares, pre-'70s sexism and anti-semitism during job interviews, punch cards and tape computing - my father began teaching computers in 1963! The Last Unrecorded Generation
Comparison with the structures of bygone centuries can prove useful, because the format of anthem books and antiphonaries is very similar to that of bound newspapers.
Prep — a real novel, not the result of a sales-team brainstorm — derives much of its pathos from the fact that the main character is never sure whether the boy she loves so much, and has had so many sexual encounters with, might actually constitute that magical, bygone character: her “boyfriend.” What Girls Want
Tourists would marvel at the elegant ingenuity of a bygone age.
The brittleness of both Old Firm defences meant the invoking of bygones in the lead-up to yesterday's derby.
I see something of several male friends from those bygone days and they too report that they never hear from their old girlfriends.
For some, the minute attention to nuances of bygone manners makes her simple romances vapidly parochial.
The thing about bygone eras is that diets and human physiology were different. Times, Sunday Times
This park speaks of a great bygone age, and now that the north is fast becoming the frappuccino quarter of the city it may yet thrive again.
See House itself an old clergyman approached him with outstretched hand and the words, "I would like you to call bygones just bygones. The Moccasin Maker
And how greatly does that behavior deviate from bygone standards of greater constraint?
The traditions and proceedings of the Commons are largely derived from a bygone age and none more so than it's adversarial nature.
Made by hand of organic cotton, the nightie is a throwback to a bygone era and is pretty enough to be worn as a dress. Celebrity Baby Blog - People.com
Before his eyes had risen bygone times. Heidi
If you ever want to check out the great but bygone tradition of Yugoslav Album Designs, head over to Carniola, where there's an ongoing series featuring the most remarkable sleeves released during the history of that Balkan republic. Yugoslav Album Designs
Cabooses are another fast disappearing symbol of the railways, those that remain are a gaunt remnant of the former glory of a bygone era.
That love for music, especially that of a bygone era, led to the group's strongest album to date, 2010's "Halcyon Digest," which lyrically explored memories of the underground music scene pre-Internet, the teen fervor for such new sounds, and the ultimate faultiness of said memories. From Rap to the Rapture
It is wonderful how Rose has developed this resource and has preserved the memory of these bygone days.
It was he who spotted the potential of the Pickering doctor's collection of bygones, and pushed for the creation of what became York Castle Museum.
The thing about bygone eras is that diets and human physiology were different. Times, Sunday Times
As centres of commerce, finance and fashion their buildings reflect the sardonic elegance of a bygone era.
Revellers togged up in suits and fancy vintage dresses groove the night away against a projected backdrop of classic films, footage of a bygone Birmingham and, later in the evening, eye-popping burlesque routines.
This consists of a fascinating collection of rural bygones, as well as a complete cobbler's shop and wheelwright's.
Apparently, bygones haven't been gone by for long enough yet, and the attempt was repulsed.
Today the structures defy time to tell the story of gallantry, courage and tragedy of the bygone era and its story of survival in the harsh Thar Dessert.
They've also co-opted the mocking, confrontational tone of bygone campus radicals in their tactics.
The chandeliers, the pianist playing Cole Porter numbers, and just the grandness of the room all add to the feeling that somehow you have been transported into a bygone age.
Walt's obsolescent foreign policy is deeply rooted in the statism of a bygone era.
The jury has long favoured feel-good coming-of-age films, character studies with a moral, well-crafted films from a bygone time.
The tyranny associated by Renaissance humanists with the age of chivalric knights and with the knight figure caused romances that heroize the bygone age to fall into disfavor.
The rooms are furnished in period style with squashy sofas and chairs in intimate groupings complete with photographs and hunting trophies from bygone eras and current family snaps.
Let bygones be bygones.
When the book was republished in the UK last year, it was intended as a quirky insight into a bygone era. Times, Sunday Times
Fiat hopes there are many more customers who fondly recall the sporty Fiat image of bygone days-and are willing to forget reliability problems that plagued the automaker some owners said its name stood for Fix It Again, Tony before it pulled out of the U.S. market in BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Today Deerfield is a destination for anyone enamored of bygone days.
Let bygones be bygones and let's forget about our disputes and be friends again.
Where are the joyful students and the grisettes of ‘days bygone’?
I spent a few minutes in the abbey museum, admiring high-relief tomb carvings of bygone Scots kings and chieftains in full battle gear.
This is not your old English teacher's haiku, or some tired set of elegies from a bygone era.
MADURAI: It is a wrong perception to think that post offices are establishments of a bygone era because even in this age of electronic media, post offices remain the most sought after, especially in rural areas, said V.S. Jayasankar, Director of Postal S.rvices, Madurai. The Hindu - Front Page
A few relics of the pre-video area still survive, however, and Metro Cinema is bringing in two of the best examples of the rockumentary and one entertaining piece of piffle from those bygone days for your delectation.
The "ideal family" should be the one that is best for the individual, named, child; not some statistical Joe Bloggs, and we should be making efforts to protect children from bad parenting without rose tinted glasses to a bygone age or the politically correct farce we have now. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The rooms are furnished in period style with squashy sofas and chairs in intimate groupings complete with photographs and hunting trophies from bygone eras and current family snaps.
It has lent its support to Keighley Bus Museum's search for a permanent site to house its collection of bygone buses.
It is one of the most stunning buildings in the Clyde Valley and clearly belongs to a bygone age of sumptuous extravagance.
A chiming grandfather clock is all that is lacking to complete a scene redolent of a bygone era framed by stuffiness and reserve.
But the album is by no means just a tribute to one bygone time. The Sun
Before his eyes had risen bygone times. Heidi
I was thinking about palindromes today as well, but for the rather more mundane reason that they feature in a question for a bygone DSA example class.
Suddenly I am channelling words from a bygone era.
There are good reasons to recognize the continuity of bygone days with the here and now. Christianity Today
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Like the railway itself, this peaceful film is a throwback to a bygone age. Times, Sunday Times
Other modern bygones would include radios, TV sets and motorcycling gear.
Certainly I see the latter at WWO, but I also visited a program in Addis run by the elders, a true example of the power of the kebele community brought back from a bygone time. Dr. Jane Aronson: What Does a Bar Mitzvah Have to do With the Fate of Orphans Around the World?
Idealizations of village and town life from bygone days are common in the speeches of politicians.
But, with the passing of years, gondolas on Windermere, Coniston, and Ullswater and steam trains to Lakeside have come to symbolize a bygone age of tranquillity.
The French department used an audiovisual course based around pre-recorded open reel tapes and a stills projector, another electrical gadget from a bygone age.
At the back are many black and white pictures of bygone times in Holgate and Acomb, as well as maps showing the route of each walk.
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The Street administration portrays the mounted unit as a relic of a bygone era.
Naturally, one of the distinct pleasures of meeting her is tapping her for anecdotes of this bygone era.
However the interstate highway system that transformed American demography, culture and economics emerged in a bygone era of pax-Americana when bountiful amounts of federal money were available to finance road construction and bevies of well-trained and experienced road contractors were on hand to implement the program. Matthew Bergman: The Roads of Africa: Moving Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons
The steam locomotive evokes nostalgic memories of a bygone era with its glory and old age charm.
Then, contemplating the pale moon, as she sinks beneath the waves of the rolling sea, the memory of bygone days strikes the mind of the hero, days when approaching danger invigorated the brave, and the moon shone upon his bark laden with spoils, and returning in triumph. Book II: Paras. 50–92
As centres of commerce, finance and fashion their buildings reflect the sardonic elegance of a bygone era.
Let bygones be bygones and let's forget about our disputes and be friends again.
It is one of the most stunning buildings in the Clyde Valley and clearly belongs to a bygone age of sumptuous extravagance.
Sir Rabbie Namaliu invoking the bygones be bygones argument says hammering out the agreement was a matter of discussion.
The painful ache of regrets and bygones slowly fade into a mixture of brandy and honey.
The marble floors, chandeliers and sweeping staircases all hark to a bygone era. Times, Sunday Times
Downtown, neon treasures from a bygone era were stored in a dusty field called the Neon Boneyard.
Miss Piggy, Kermit and the rest now come across as symbols of a bygone era.
The old man gave her a quick glance, eyes wary over spectacles that stood out like antique flair garnered from a bygone age. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The film, then, works both as a paean to old age and a bittersweet look at a bygone era.
They are eerily compelling relics of a bygone future age. Times, Sunday Times
The advantages for the children are overwhelming, of course - but that doesn't mean I don't miss the halcyon and bygone era of getting up past ten o'clock in the AM.
With his bow-tied, moustachioed, immaculate turnout he seemed a figure from a bygone age.
Jolly Rogers, named for the skull and cross-bone symbol of bygone pirates, is being marketed by the Velcro Kids Company as part of a play set that allows children to assemble castles or ships and imagine themselves aboard. Imagination, Toy Industry Go Hand in Hand
Still, I am willing to let bygones be bygones, which is why I want to invite Bill and Hillary, as well as Chelsea and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, to my younger daughter's wedding next year. Jerry Zezima: The Wedding Planner
The wooden panelling and stained glass windows created a genteel air from a bygone era.
The buildings reflect the elegance of a bygone era.
But who can recall bygones, Arthur; or wrong steps in life? The Newcomes
There was a full house for the April meeting at the WI Hall when a representative of the Cogges Farm Museum, Witney, talked about rural and domestic bygones.
Last week we journeyed to Bridlington and Scarborough to reminisce about bygone summer holidays.
Looking back, I suppose it was a relic from a bygone age even then.
I hope to convince readers that this is not simply a nostalgic reactionary's rearguard defence of a bygone era but a highly desirable way of meeting the needs of many patients today.
It is well indeed that our churches, sadly given over to the laxity and carelessness of a bygone age, should be renovated and beautified, the tone of the services raised, and the "bray" of the old clerks, unsuited to the devotional feelings of a more enlightened day, silenced, but still a shade of regret will be mingled with their dismissal, if only for the sake of the large stock of amusing anecdotes which their names recall. The Parish Clerk
The astonishing collection of antiques, bygones and collectibles of Lincolnshire artist Colin Carr is expected to attract hundreds of fans.
I live part of my time in an imaginary bygone era.
The sly hint is that this belongs - like so many 1960s attitudes - back in the romantic 1840s of an idealistic, bygone century.
After years of "chatting," I actually heard her voice: a weathered, pretty thing, seemingly encased in a bygone era, unmarred by modernity.
Carol M. HighsmithAladdin's lamp from the defunct casino of the same name is one of many nostalgic signs of bygone Las Vegas saved in the Neon Boneyard.
Far from being a relic of a bygone age, they are the future for deployed operations. Times, Sunday Times
Like the railway itself, this peaceful film is a throwback to a bygone age. Times, Sunday Times

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