How to Use salad days in a Sentence

salad days

plural noun
  • The Warriors at least had the salad days.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The salad days that came with the old model have been thrown out, so now nobody knows how to make money.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The internet from this era is the internet of our salad days.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Engram’s salad days from Jacksonville are over.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Come to think of it, even the big kids aren’t old enough to remember Jerry Jones’ salad days.
    — Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • But the Fed’s rate cut is cutting into banks’ net interest income, and has some worried the salad days are over.
    — Peter Green, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Mac DeMarco’s salad days really are gone — at least if the salads are cold.
    — Vulture, 9 May 2023
  • Vietnam’s postpandemic salad days may be over, but most countries would still kill for growth numbers like that amid a global slowdown.
    — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Samuel also looks slow coming out of his breaks, a dire sign for a receiver who was never good at beating press coverage, even in the salad days.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Deadline’s Oscar live blog goes back to the salad days of late founder Nikki Finke, who filled it with snark and salty humor.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Say goodbye to the salad days of the pandemic, when public cash was flowing like Niagara Falls.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Even as Anton says, besides the return of vinyl, album covers never will have the salad days of the 1970s.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 June 2023
  • Acknowledge that the salad days are long gone, get under the exceptionally punitive luxury tax thresholds, and stock the war chest for the future.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • These were the salad days of congressional supremacy, and the results are extremely disappointing.
    — Jay Cost, National Review, 14 June 2019
  • In their salad days, the trio could hold their own on the court, once coming from 12-2 down in the last inning of an Open Division game to pull off a win.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
  • Even years removed from their salad days at The Rivoli, The Kids were still grappling with how to best communicate with each other.
    — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 25 May 2022
  • But the most notable difference about the salad days of Instagram was how confidently—and frequently—one posted to the grid.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The themes varied a bit throughout our trip, with pasta lunches, lighter soup and salad days, and Mediterranean food, but always with local ingredients and twists.
    — Stephanie Wu, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2020
  • With multiple spinoffs on the horizon, the show struggled throughout its final season to retain the suspense of the series’ salad days, when seemingly anyone could die at any time.
    — Jessica Liese, Variety, 20 Nov. 2022
  • His enthusiasm at the opportunity to relive some of his salad days as a cheerleader at Yale overcame his better judgment and led to his downfall.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 2 May 2024
  • Until his graduation from Legend High, Roush was primarily a center or a winger during his salad days.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 25 May 2026
  • In the salad days of 2024, that spending was comfortably covered by their cash-cow businesses in advertising, cloud, e-commerce, and software.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 4 June 2026
  • Now, roughly 70 percent of the properties have rooms that offer a modern take on the hotel’s midcentury salad days, complete with interiors painted in orange and turquoise.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • But the real star of the show here is the amazing soundtrack composed for the film by Dan Bern and Mike Viola (among others) that satirizes rock-and-roll from its salad days to the present day.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • But Simmons was there at the beginning, and jeen-yuhs lingers in its subject's salad days, a vintage digital camera casting a memory glow over young Kanye West breaking into the rap game.
    — Kristen Baldwin and Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • And with the new site expected to create just 40 jobs, and up to 70 pending future expansions, that doesn’t mean Millville is poised to return to its salad days as a manufacturing hub.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But, despite a record-setting $250 million deal with WarnerMedia in 2019, the 2020s were not salad days.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Remember, the heroic symbols that Ronald Reagan deployed so effectively were swiped from liberalism’s salad days in the Thirties and Forties.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Paul’s interview with Bob Castellini and some of his confounding comments have people harkening back to the salad days of Marge Schott, a comparison no owner of a baseball team should ever wish upon himself.
    — Richard Fitch, Cincinnati.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Internet pioneer Yahoo was a goliath in its late 1990s salad days, when web portals and search engines were as influential as AI is today in reshaping the tech landscape.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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