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Example sentences for "long ago"

  • Shut her out, and you truly rob the children of something which is theirs; something marking their constant kinship with the race-children of the past, and adapted to their needs as it was to those of the generation of long ago!

  • I am going to tell you a story about something wonderful that happened to a Christmas Tree like this, ever and ever so long ago, when it was once upon a time.

  • Once, ever and ever so long ago, we didn't have any pink roses.

  • It is what makes grandmother sigh gently and look far over your heads, when her soft voice commences the story of "the little girl who lived long, long ago.

  • And for the first time since he had walked into the house that night so long ago, followed by the tall young man for whose coming a letter had prepared her, she felt that David had withdrawn himself from her.

  • Long ago I warned him that this time would come.

  • And nothing would restore Howard Lucas to that small theatrical world of his which had waved him good-bye at the station so long ago.

  • And oddly enough at that time Riddle's words of long ago came to me, "God help the woman you love or the man you fight.

  • Long ago, Espinas had drawn attention to "societies of animals," temporary or permanent, and to the kind of morality that arose in them.

  • They had won their household places long ago, and did not stand without, as she did, with a bar across the door.

  • For Paul had heard them say long ago, that that gentleman had been with his Mama when she clasped Florence in her arms, and died.

  • The very beadle, I am informed, observed it, so long ago as at his christening.

  • Though still she would turn, again and again, before going to bed herself from the simple air that had lulled him to rest so often, long ago, and from the other low soft broken strain of music, back to that house.

  • I'd 'a' done it long ago, if Bob had let me see you.

  • Tell me honest--couldn't you have got something to do long ago, if it hadn't been for trying to do something for me?

  • They'd have done him up long ago, if they could.

  • I remember how I used to prize this flower,--long ago, I suppose, very long ago!

  • Phoebe; "I heard it long ago, from my father, and two or three times from my cousin Hepzibah, in the month that I have been here.

  • This tendency eventually led to his commitment, but as long ago as 1906 a physician said he was insane.

  • Long ago, the saying was formulated that all roads lead to Rome.

  • She has seen a great deal of trouble; her husband and her son died long ago; but she has got over that, and is happy now—quite happy.

  • It's all pretty much as I used to imagine it long ago, when I wept over your inevitable marriage and our consequent parting," she laughed.

  • Why didn't you send him about his business long ago?

  • Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil.

  • I gave that life up long ago," said he, wondering at the change in her face, and trying to divine its meaning.

  • I ought to have done so long ago, if at all.

  • In reality he had ceased to enjoy himself as long ago as the year before, when he went away to Moscow.

  • And she remembered how, long, long ago, when she was a girl of seventeen, she had gone with her aunt to Troitsa.

  • What a simpleton you must have been not to tell me long ago.

  • You know a great deal more than I do; you have learned both Greek and Latin, as you told me long ago, and you have been at the very best school in the West of England.

  • But whether we were afraid or not, I am sure I cannot tell, because it is so long ago; but I think that had something to do with it.

  • Sara laughed, swung herself back by the tips of her fingers and danced around him in the childish fashion of long ago.

  • That was just how you used to say 'Nancy' long ago, as if I'd broken all the commandments at once.

  • In a dim way, like a dream of a dream, he thought of American Beauty roses of which something had been said once--so long ago, it seemed now.

  • Dennie told me when you had that awful fight, and Trenchie told me long ago, that you thought I must have money to make me happy.

  • A nursemaid, long ago, and a weak and sickly child.

  • There is a legend that once, in long ago times, there lived on earth only men.

  • Still hadn't a hero, long ago, faced a similar problem?

  • I often look back upon that night long, long ago.

  • He is the only one in existence, since his second wife died long, long ago.

  • He should have heard us long ago--or smelt us.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long ago" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both kingdoms; face wore; glass plate; long chalk; long chase; long detour; long engagement; long hill; long letter; long look; long night; long pole; long procession; long ride; long room; long struggle; long trail; long way; long ways; longer have; longer knew; longer required; longer young; longitudinal section; loosely applied; unclean until the even