How to Use long-ago in a Sentence

long-ago

1 of 2 adjective

• There was a grassy smell, the long-ago seeping out of the earth.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• The knolls are crowned with scrub oak and the slopes are swept bare from a long-ago fire.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
• The same goes with the James gang, other folk heroes from a long-ago.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
• Bringing Duvall back to the Bay would right a long-ago wrong.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
• That was back when things were different, in the long-ago world of 2014 or so.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• This book holds a special place in my heart as my long-ago intro to the genre.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• Then the long-ago baseball lessons from his mother kicked in.
  — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• The plot of land’s long-ago owner came up with a direct method of keeping the outside world at bay.
  — Bob Greene, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2023
• Fifteen then surveys the long-ago sky into which Joy, as a star, has risen.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Dec. 2024
• That’s still far below the long-ago pre-social media days.
  — David Bloom, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
• That’s still far below the long-ago pre-social media days.
  — David Bloom, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
• My long-ago ancestors may very well have enjoyed the fruit.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• But the courts are saying no and are not afraid, showing the spirit of those long-ago minutemen.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
• Indeed, faint outlines of long-ago lakes have been spotted in the region.
  — Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• One of them remembered me from a long-ago visit and greeted me like the prodigal son.
  — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
• By season’s end, your current era will feel like a whole ’nother long-ago lifetime.
  — Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
• The question of what took place in the boy’s bedroom that day during their long-ago childhood haunts NDiaye’s book.
  — Katie Kitamura, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2023
• And that long-ago life still informs his success today.
  — Todd Longwell, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
• Remi Wolf, whose youthful genre-hopping will give a jolt to a fest that’s heavier on long-ago hits.
  — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
• At the restaurant Weavers, which serves a succulent plate of seared local scallops, a plaque marks the level of a long-ago flood.
  — Shane C Kurup, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2024
• His section on cholera opens with his own long-ago purchase of a book, in Paris, on Marcel Proust’s father, Adrien.
  — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Crockett said the song was inspired by his long-ago period of busking in New York City.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
• Crockett said the song was inspired by his long-ago period of busking in New York City.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
• Technique plays a strong role, with the warm amber tones and use of slow-motion in the long-ago past contrasting with the flatter and more formal look of the present.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
• Browse the museum, hike the trails — the Tower Trail takes you to the site of the long-ago observation tower — then check out the town’s art galleries and murals.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
• No quotes from long-ago laureates in this one — just Colby’s own brilliance.
  — Drew Goins, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
• In a long-ago interview, the director Mike Nichols cautioned a nascent film reviewer to not mistake the dancer for the dance.
  — Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• At a Michigan orchard, a woman tells her three daughters about a long-ago romance.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• The Broncos also have a long history with Nevada on the football field, but much of that is long-ago history.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 23 June 2025
• In recent decades, technological advances have transformed the field of archeology, allowing for the sequencing of ancient DNA and the tracing of long-ago migrations.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 9 June 2025

long ago

2 of 2 noun

• Sparse shoots of grass have long ago grown over the dirt.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 10 July 2024
• Not that long ago, there was O’Doul’s and Sharp's, and that was it.
  — Nicole Haase, Journal Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
• The group long ago stopped trying to catch the last owlet.
  — Zachary T. Sampson, Sun Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2022
• The writing was on the dugout wall as long ago as 2008.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 4 May 2022
• Not too long ago, the Coastal League was among the county’s best.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
• And 1,500 years ago is not that long ago in the big picture.
  — Elizabeth Nicholas, Vogue, 15 June 2022
• Germany was the trading hotspot of the world not too long ago.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
• That wasn't too long ago for me, that was three years ago.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 23 Aug. 2021
• But actions long ago set the stage for the bulk of the increases.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• There was a time—and not very long ago—that would have scoffed at 11% growth.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
• Some of the players have been with the show for years or did it long ago and have come back.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Dec. 2024
• The decade wasn’t that long ago, but there’s already been signs that point to yes.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2022
• The Slackers long ago learned to give each other space on the road.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2021
• That’s one lesson boomers seem to have learned long ago.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2023
• The windows and doors had long ago been blown out from the force of nearby blasts.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2024
• On the contrary, Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire long ago.
  — David Brennan, ABC News, 1 June 2025
• The answer to that question, the agency says, is not too long ago.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• Not that long ago, Afghanistan was a booming trade hub.
  — David Chaffetz, Fortune Asia, 15 Dec. 2024
• And the Kremlin long ago gave up caring about its image in the West.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• Not long ago, the world was on track to eliminate hunger.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• Once, long ago, a creature not quite human walked the Earth.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• Not that long ago, pitchers had teeth pulled to treat their arms.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• Once upon a time, long ago, the world was encased in ice.
  — Veronique Greenwood, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2024
• The area has seen a previous boom, but that was long ago.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• By then, Hudson had long ago sold his share of the Band to Robertson.
  — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
• But the economic seeds of Trump’s rise were sown long ago.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
• The old courthouse, which long ago served as a custom house for trade ships.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
• The bruises from his time as a hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran faded long ago.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
• Hartford Courant Not too long ago, copper fittings with rubber o-rings hit the marketplace.
  — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2025
• The heavier elements making up our planet and even our body were forged in stars long ago, and our own sun is a star, of course—so in a very real sense, to study stars is to study ourselves.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 12 June 2025