How to Use bygone in a Sentence

bygone

adjective

• The stone wall is from a bygone age.
• Men in Kilts can’t help but give off echoes of a bygone era.
  — Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2021
• Here are some of the most popular guns of a bygone era and a new version built to stand the test of time.
  — John Gordon, Outdoor Life, 24 Feb. 2021
• After giving this more thought, was that yesterday or part of a bygone era?
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2021
• But for me the milestone conjures memories of a bygone era.
  — Fortune, 25 Feb. 2021
• Hunting down vintage toys can rekindle those memories of bygone eras.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2024
• For now, bipartisanship on voting seems like a relic of a bygone time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• Looking back to that Detroit party in 2011 might feel like a glimpse into a bygone era.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2021
• Still, the chain was fostered by and symbolic of a bygone Silicon Valley era.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2021
• In hindsight, the report seems like a relic of a bygone age, in which elders from both parties could try to hammer out major election reforms in good faith.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
• In some cases, the original wood timbers were left rough and exposed, lending a dramatic air and reflecting a bygone era.
  — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• Shards of caribou bones and antlers lie on the tundra as ghostly business cards of a bygone migration, greened with mold, and minutely chiseled and mined for calcium by tiny vole teeth.
  — Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
• In a bygone era, visitors were allowed to feed them during ranger programs, but luckily management wised up and realized that, as the saying goes, a fed bear is a dead bear.
  — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 22 Feb. 2021
• Artfully merging modern darkness with bygone romanticism, this is a mysterious city worth visiting, so book your tickets for fall.
  — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• The Left sees that talk as a relic of a bygone era, like Biden’s soliloquy about leaving the record player on at night during one of the Democratic debates.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 11 Mar. 2021
• At least 14 reactors from bygone vessels of the Northern Fleet were discarded into the Kara Sea.
  — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2021
• The vibe: The bar still looks a lot like the bygone Hands Down space (minus the neon sign).
  — Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 22 July 2024
• At the end of the day, Fox credits her life’s work to the bygone era she was raised in.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2024
• All that stuff seems so quaint and like from a bygone era.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• The back wall doubles as a whiteboard, still smeared with the grime of bygone notes.
  — WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• But the hot dog stand is not an artifact of a bygone era.
  — Amy Cavanaugh, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2023
• Such Cold War machinations might seem like the stuff of a bygone era.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• By the ’60s, the mustangs were regarded as relics of a bygone era.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
• Instead, there’s something about it that evokes the thought and care paid to the design of bygone eras.
  — Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• This image, like game rentals as a whole, is now a relic of a bygone era.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
• With their war wounds, the characters of Adagio seem like ghosts of a bygone era.
  — Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
• Even that shooting of 16 years ago belongs to a bygone era.
  — Charlie Campbell / Dili, Timor-Leste, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
• There is no honor in skipping meals for a bygone, bad idea of style ideals.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2022
• With an icon of a bygone era at his back, Tyler wields his success like a cudgel.
  — Sheldon Pearc, The New Yorker, 30 June 2021
• You’d be forgiven for thinking so, but not all the cars on this list are from a bygone era.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024