How to Use ago in a Sentence

ago

adjective or adverb

• One of the other cadets is the son of a long-ago friend of Kip’s.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
• Of those three long-ago teams: The 1966 squad at least had a tie, so throw them out.
  — Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
• The idea for the plot grew out of the helmer’s long-ago trip to Southwest Iran to look at places where the Iran-Iraq war took place.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
• The team signed thirty-three-year-old Gail Goodrich, a long-ago star on his last legs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2022
• The bend, geophysicists thought, came from a long-ago shift in the plate’s motion.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Jan. 2020
• And the most compelling visual will be The Twirl, a long-ago snapshot of Woods at his best.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• In that long-ago game, the Lakers blew out the Warriors, but James was injured.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 18 Jan. 2021
• Those of a certain age might recall Dave as the long-ago sports columnist at the C-J in Louisville.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 Apr. 2020
• To me, this child is akin to a distant, long-ago acquaintance.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
• The novel describes a long-ago city that was one of the most influential at the time.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2021
• Each shell is the memory of some walk taken with a long-ago friend, of ideas first thought up and pains shared.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Nov. 2022
• The crowds this summer have been younger, more raucous, edgier than in that long-ago time.
  — Will Englund, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2019
• Lola, married for 57 years, has never been able to move past the long-ago loss of her young son.
  — Cory Oldweiler, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
• After the lodge caught fire in late 2016, the state sought to remedy its long-ago omission.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 12 Oct. 2022
• And to connect the dots between long-ago battles and ourselves.
  — CBS News, 30 June 2019
• The scars from the long-ago war and the years that followed had changed our lives and dampened the intensity but not the warmth of our feelings.
  — Jeffrey Brown, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• Spady, who now lives in Roseburg, was a long-ago art student Oregon.
  — oregonlive, 27 June 2020
• Alexy, who pitches only out of the stretch, is a former Dodgers draft pick acquired by Texas in the long-ago trade for Yu Darvish.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• Spalding has won more Grammys than any of her long-ago rivals for best new artist.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2022
• The small bungalows on our side streets where long-ago families set down roots and grew.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021
• Seats were uprooted and piled up, there was damage from a long-ago fire, and a car had crashed into the lobby.
  — Joe Tash, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2021
• That grit and those guts made what one of Smith’s long-ago coaches in San Francisco said about him both pitiable and laughable.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
• Soon thereafter, Paul and Georgette meet—and rekindle a long-ago romance.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 May 2021
• Many more widows and children of other long-ago soldiers are still alive.
  — Ian Shapira, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2020
• My favorite way to mentor the up-and-comers is to adapt the philosophy of my long-ago teachers.
  — Domenic Rom, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2022
• Think of long-ago householders who buried pots in the embers of communal bake houses to braise overnight, low and slow.
  — Judy Walker, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Overnight rates at classy Blue Door Inn include a wine reception and breakfast in a long-ago blacksmith shop.
  — Mary Bergin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2018
• Pick keeps a close watch on all this data and, when the mood strikes, pulls out a folder to recite figures from a long-ago period.
  — Hugh Son, Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Her lie is profound and hurtful; don’t tempt her to embellish further or to put her own spin on these long-ago events.
  — Amy Dickinson, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
• But, being a news pro, Linnman on that long-ago day tried to come across as an expert on blowing up whales.
  — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2020

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