[
US
/ˈjɛstɝˌdeɪ, ˈjɛstɝdi/
]
[ UK /jˈɛstədˌeɪ/ ]
[ UK /jˈɛstədˌeɪ/ ]
ADVERB
-
in the recent past; only a short time ago
I was not born yesterday! -
on the day preceding today
yesterday the weather was beautiful
NOUN
-
the day immediately before today
it was in yesterday's newspapers -
the recent past
we shared many yesterdays
yesterday's solutions are not good enough
How To Use yesterday In A Sentence
- The scale of the economic gulf between the two parties came as two polls yesterday showed that the election remained wide open. Times, Sunday Times
- As for me, I was feeling a little spaced out and tired from my trip across the pond yesterday.
- Yesterday, the police arrested a nurse. The Sun
- He visited a specialist yesterday to find out whether he requires surgery. Times, Sunday Times
- The president arrived at California in a helicopter yesterday.
- He made the declarations while responding to reporters' questions on the bilateral debt forgiveness agreement during yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall.
- Two executives of a notorious stockbroking firm that fleeced more than 8,000 savers were banned from the City yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
- Celebrity steeplejack Fred Dibnah was supposed to end his days of felling factory chimneys with the demolition of the 175-ft Park Mill chimney in Royton yesterday.
- Remember that if you get through yesterday, you'll get through today.
- A similar problem came up yesterday in reading a Boris Akunin story called Strast' i dolg Passion and duty, set in an alternate Russia which has revived tsardom, along with its Table of Ranks and all the rest of the imperial paraphernalia. Languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS.