Last year it was green, and before that red; and this is nasty stupid black and white, and all thin crackling paper.
It had survived everything, and stood up vividly green through the broken stalks of last year's wheat.
In the pauses of complete stillness there came the rustle of last year's leaves, stirred by the thawing of the earth and the growth of the grass.
Old Margery at the lodge is dead; and they don't know where to find some one to teach clear-starching at your school; and Robert Hall made forty pounds last year by his apples.
The retreating party in their haste, however, did not stop for that, or heed his menaces any more than last year's clouds.
This Government means to use the authority conferred on it last year by the Congress to encourage trade expansion on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world.
You four old foremen will use your remudas of last year.
Last year, I went ashore at a large village called Taive, about seven miles from the scene of our disaster.
The small reef (Polynesian) islands did not give us so good a reception as last year, though there was no unfriendliness.
We jostled each other in the dance or at the board; but the estrangement continued, and seemed irrevocable, until the fourth of June, last year.
The soil is "slickens," on the Yuba river, and the weeds grew up last year in a crop of volunteer barley, which was hogged off.
Cut them back to a shoot of this year's growth, removing about a third of last year's growth, perhaps.
Last year my tomatoes and string beans grew plentifully, but never produced any tomatoes or beans, yet turnips and parsnips were all right.
Last year my five-year-old Bartlett orchard was full of blossoms, but, though many pears became as large as white beans, the majority of them dropped.
Advise me as to plowing under a crop of last year's weeds where I intend to plant beans, corn, etc.
The date is August the third of last year, fourteen months ago.
During my last year at Cambridge, I read with care and profound interest Humboldt's 'Personal Narrative.
For the adaptation of their seniors' last year's garments had not proved so successful as not to have much grieved the good girl and her mother.
Sam, "this is the one that came from the Quartz Ranges, last year; is it not?
Last year, one day, when I was dining at your house, being placed by the side of Mademoiselle Bell, I quoted this phrase to her, and it pleased her a great deal.
Last year at this time there was a delightful reunion at her house.
But you, of your own free will, you know, exposed your conscience to me last year.
Let us bow to each other, as last year, but let that be all.
Let us follow in all things the precedent of last year.
Last year I ran into Whites in a village which the Reds had assured me was strongly held by themselves, and these same Whites refused to believe that the village where I had spent the preceding night was in the possession of the Reds.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "last year" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
