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Example sentences for "only yesterday"

  • Only yesterday I rode about town in the car and had the chauffeur stop a while every place where they were shoveling snow.

  • My love," she said to me only yesterday, "I feel that I must have chop suey or I'll DIE!

  • Thank you, Brother," said that same voice which yesterday, only yesterday night, had sounded so rarely sweet.

  • She had but one heart's desire and his father shared it: Orion must know full well what she meant; she had spoken to him about it only yesterday.

  • Now she was laying the grapes round the pomegranates, and he remembered how Horapollo, only yesterday, had praised her dainty skill.

  • Only yesterday he might perhaps have denied his love for her, so strange, so uncertain, so undreamt of, is the dawning of a first great attachment.

  • Why, only yesterday a Rittmeister passing to join the forces of the Prince of Baden was refused admittance just after the clock had struck, and had to come back to this very inn.

  • I made acquaintance with it only yesterday afternoon.

  • These notes of travel read as if Miss Edgeworth had been writing down only yesterday a pleasant list of the things which are to be seen two hours off, to-day no less plainly than a century ago.

  • Only yesterday a friend showed me a sprightly, dark-eyed miniature of Felicia Hemans.

  • You are discreet, as you proved to me only yesterday; and if I were to tell you all I went through and endured last night you would certainly forgive me, that I know.

  • Only yesterday I wrote to decline helping such a work on a poor little Church I remember these sixty years.

  • Only yesterday, it seemed to Mrs. Baines, she had borne Sophia; only yesterday she was a baby, a schoolgirl to be smacked.

  • Only yesterday, and she had been, an innocent, timid creature in Bursley, in Axe, a foolish creature who deemed the concealment of letters a supreme excitement.

  • Only yesterday he had thought it too bold a step to use a litter, and to-day he was already considering the propriety of hiring a chariot.

  • Only yesterday he had hoped with happy confidence to establish himself on a footing of his own, to-day this seemed impossible, for the most indispensable means were lacking to him.

  • Have you really forgotten what I told you, only yesterday?

  • You said just the contrary of the family," she exclaimed, "only yesterday!

  • Only yesterday, she broke out again, and put my affection for her to a far more severe trial.

  • I was thinking, only yesterday morning, if people are able to put into English all that was ever written in Latin, why don't they do it and save other people the trouble?

  • Only yesterday, speaking of China, she told us that words would fail her to describe one-half the wonders of that enchanted land.

  • Only yesterday he asked me if I believed there was anything made that would fix her up and make it more comfortable for me.

  • Only yesterday he was tellin' how Betsy'd feel when the girl landed on her with his letter in her pocket.

  • Only yesterday I heard that Joe Dimick's swamp was just loaded down with "early blacks.

  • The time had been, only yesterday, when not one of these objects, in its remotest association of interest with the living figure before him, would have been lost on Redlaw.

  • I was thankful, only yesterday, that I could remember this unhappy son when he was an innocent child.

  • Only yesterday I was an untamed dove, Which nowhere finds peace or rest; They came from below, they came from above, And pierced with an arrow my breast!

  • Only yesterday I was a bird so forlorn, I sat 'neath the linden alone; They drove me away from the place I was born, And threw at me stone after stone.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only yesterday" 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:
    leant back; only because; only begotten; only brother; only child; only daughter; only fancy; only found; only friend; only from; only know; only known; only look; only love; only more; only possible; only remains; only some; only that; only this; only thought; only two; only used; only wait; send over; sitting here