How to Use bygone in a Sentence

bygone

adjective
  • The stone wall is from a bygone age.
  • This bond was forged in a bygone era.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • That is a relic of a bygone era.
    — Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Some of the set works in her bygone church basement routines.
    — ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Someone produced a set of leather goalie pads from that bygone era.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Pass your favorite bygone beach reads on to friends by holding a book swap.
    — J.a. Kohl, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2020
  • There is no honor in skipping meals for a bygone, bad idea of style ideals.
    — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2022
  • This image, like game rentals as a whole, is now a relic of a bygone era.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
  • These days, the idea of a free wine tasting feels like something from a bygone era.
    — Urmila Ramakrishnan, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The back wall doubles as a whiteboard, still smeared with the grime of bygone notes.
    — WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
  • This is now presented as a bygone era.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • At the end of the day, Fox credits her life’s work to the bygone era she was raised in.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2024
  • With an icon of a bygone era at his back, Tyler wields his success like a cudgel.
    — Sheldon Pearc, The New Yorker, 30 June 2021
  • No chateaus or domaines, no drawings of villas or palaces to evoke a bygone life of largesse.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Most current residents may not have an inkling of that high-stakes holy fight of a bygone era.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
  • You’d be forgiven for thinking so, but not all the cars on this list are from a bygone era.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Many picked up this hardcover guide to the city, filled with great tips and insights to a bygone era.
    — Jessica Parks, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Here are some of the most popular guns of a bygone era and a new version built to stand the test of time.
    — John Gordon, Outdoor Life, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Instead, there’s something about it that evokes the thought and care paid to the design of bygone eras.
    — Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Eclectic eye candy adds to the warmth of the home, and serves as a reminder of a bygone era of farm life.
    — Mary Wakeford, azcentral, 24 May 2018
  • Neither will seek to engage in the trap of nostalgia for a bygone era.
    — Michael Stevens, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026
  • Such Cold War machinations might seem like the stuff of a bygone era.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Heyl has now been able to bring some of those bygone Veyron revisions to light.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In a state known for economic freedom and growth, this tax is the last remnant of a bygone era.
    — Scott Shalley, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2025
  • Those who don’t may discover too late that their old models belong to a bygone world.
    — Abhishek Pakhira, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • With their war wounds, the characters of Adagio seem like ghosts of a bygone era.
    — Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The recipe comes from a bygone department store called Miller & Rhoads.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
  • This means that even Gehry’s most recent work can already seem to belong to a bygone era.
    — Julian Rose, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
  • By the ’60s, the mustangs were regarded as relics of a bygone era.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The 9-to-5 workday, or any semblance of it, seems like a relic of a bygone era.
    — Author: Michelle Davis, Jeff Green, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2020

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