How to Use salad days in a Sentence

salad days

plural noun
  • The longer the offense stays stuck in idle, the further away the salad days of Jan. 1 bowl games will seem.
    Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Is there any way to return to the salad days of 59 degrees?
    James Freeman, WSJ, 18 July 2017
  • Come to think of it, even the big kids aren’t old enough to remember Jerry Jones’ salad days.
    Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The internet from this era is the internet of our salad days.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
  • In their salad days, the trio could hold their own on the court, once coming from 12-2 down in the last inning of an Open Division game to pull off a win.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • Even as Anton says, besides the return of vinyl, album covers never will have the salad days of the 1970s.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 19 June 2023
  • Even years removed from their salad days at The Rivoli, The Kids were still grappling with how to best communicate with each other.
    Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 25 May 2022
  • Say goodbye to the salad days of the pandemic, when public cash was flowing like Niagara Falls.
    Staff Reports, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Mac DeMarco’s salad days really are gone — at least if the salads are cold.
    Vulture, 9 May 2023
  • So who could blame Hall and Oates for emphasizing those salad days during their current U.S. tour?
    Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2019
  • His tusks grew vigorously in these youthful salad days.
    Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • Vietnam’s postpandemic salad days may be over, but most countries would still kill for growth numbers like that amid a global slowdown.
    Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Acknowledge that the salad days are long gone, get under the exceptionally punitive luxury tax thresholds, and stock the war chest for the future.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • With multiple spinoffs on the horizon, the show struggled throughout its final season to retain the suspense of the series’ salad days, when seemingly anyone could die at any time.
    Jessica Liese, Variety, 20 Nov. 2022
  • And with the new site expected to create just 40 jobs, and up to 70 pending future expansions, that doesn’t mean Millville is poised to return to its salad days as a manufacturing hub.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But Simmons was there at the beginning, and jeen-yuhs lingers in its subject's salad days, a vintage digital camera casting a memory glow over young Kanye West breaking into the rap game.
    Kristen Baldwin and Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • These were the salad days of congressional supremacy, and the results are extremely disappointing.
    Jay Cost, National Review, 14 June 2019
  • It’s John’s inheritance from his recently deceased father, an original mod revivalist who, in his salad days, once led a bikers’ protest against Margaret Thatcher on the streets of Brighton.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Paul’s interview with Bob Castellini and some of his confounding comments have people harkening back to the salad days of Marge Schott, a comparison no owner of a baseball team should ever wish upon himself.
    Richard Fitch, Cincinnati.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The numbers provided further evidence that Netflix’s salad days may be over, particularly in the U.S., where most households that want its 12-year-old streaming service already have it.
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Now, roughly 70 percent of the properties have rooms that offer a modern take on the hotel’s midcentury salad days, complete with interiors painted in orange and turquoise.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019

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