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Meanings of yore in English

Past.

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Examples for "past"
Examples for "past"
1
British banks will also be cautious given past experiences, industry sources said.
Reuters
2
I have become aware of her great work over the past year.
The Irish Times
3
Take a good look at its product line over the past year.
Wired
4
Most lenders have seen credit quality gradually improve over the past year.
Reuters
5
However, in past cases, his office has often followed up with charges.
Reuters
1
Whatever the problems of yesteryear-andthey were many-thatwas never true before.
This child will be great
2
Barack Obama is a politician of today, not a politician of yesteryear.
The Guardian
3
The days of granulated coffee beans might be a thing of yesteryear.
The South African
4
Bring back the salads of yesteryear, or please don't call them salads.
The Irish Times
5
Those who did not back Corbyn need to abandon yearnings for yesteryear.
The Guardian
1
Such a compulsion in past times would have been called a geas.
Halo Cryptum
2
I find myself yearning for past times when car drivers wore gloves.
The Irish Times
3
He has in past times sent into the world preachers or prophets.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
4
In past times the heroes were such as Webster, Calhoun and Clay.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
5
To such among us the associations of past times are very dear.
An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
Usage of yore in English
1
But not for the house in Hanley and the dressmaking of yore.
A Mummer's Wife
2
And truly it is foretold in the Scriptures of them of yore.17
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
3
Not in yore vest pockets, but hid out in the brush somewheres.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
4
This wouldn't have been possible in the rose-tinted amateur era of yore.
The Irish Times
5
In days of motoring yore, a puncture was merely an annoying inconvenience.
The Irish Times
6
He no longer treated Bongrand in the wheedling, respectful manner of yore.
His Masterpiece
7
We converse in more ways and with more people than of yore.
A Tramp's Sketches
8
Both you and Hal have got that crook Meldrum in yore minds.
The Sheriff's Son
9
You meet up with this girl and get her in yore power.
The Sheriff's Son
10
The schoolmistress's grave was greener and her child rosier than of yore.
The Daughters of Danaus
11
Leave yore address and I'll send the gun by the buckboard driver.
A Man Four-Square
12
The Emperor had shown himself as of yore, and exhibited his mastery.
The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo
13
He might take a crack at turning the screws on yore father.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
14
I wonder was you ever out an' out straightforward in yore life.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
15
Meanwhile, on the Box R ranch everything moved on as of yore.
Ben Blair / The Story of a Plainsman
16
Folks were born to wait on you, by yore way of it.
The Big-Town Round-Up
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common