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
• Then the long-ago baseball lessons from his mother kicked in.
  — Hikari Hida, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• Just a few of my questions were enough to trigger their long-ago pain.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
• This book holds a special place in my heart as my long-ago intro to the genre.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• The same goes with the James gang, other folk heroes from a long-ago.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
• The middle is crumbly, moist and odorless, with bits of charcoal from long-ago fires.
  — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
• By season’s end, your current era will feel like a whole ’nother long-ago lifetime.
  — Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
• Bringing Duvall back to the Bay would right a long-ago wrong.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
• Again and again, the book returns to one long-ago November.
  — Honor Jones, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
• Indeed, faint outlines of long-ago lakes have been spotted in the region.
  — Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• Fifteen then surveys the long-ago sky into which Joy, as a star, has risen.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Dec. 2024
• 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
• That was back when things were different, in the long-ago world of 2014 or so.
  — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 21 Oct. 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
• The charges were unrelated to the long-ago crimes at the Carmichael party.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Arlo is, in fact, Peter’s child from a long-ago hard-partying night.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026
• No quotes from long-ago laureates in this one — just Colby’s own brilliance.
  — Drew Goins, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
• Could our own feelings, in fact, be the psychic residue of those long-ago experiences?
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 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
• Cloutier said these beings are integral to the story and leftovers from that long-ago era.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• At a Michigan orchard, a woman tells her three daughters about a long-ago romance.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• The men slumped in those long-ago joints would not be at home in a Murray Hill bar these days, however.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2026
• The nudge reminded Joe of Aldrin’s long-ago galactic snub of the group.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Aug. 2025
• The problem is, her long-ago lover (Callum Turner) has been waiting for her, too.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
• Kurlansky drops us into this long-ago world quickly – so quickly, in fact, that readers might need some time to get their bearings.
  — Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 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
• 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
• On that long-ago October afternoon, Willy told me about back-breaking farm work, long hot days and long cold nights.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2023

long ago

2 of 2 noun

• How long ago does a year ago feel now?
  — ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
• This was the state of the world not that long ago.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• This was back in ‘66 — long ago.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
• Charles was in town not too long ago, Gay says.
  — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 7 June 2026
• Her own windows had too, long ago.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2026
• Not long ago, the outlook was grim.
  — Diane Goldstein, Mercury News, 19 June 2026
• They should have been published long ago.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
• Anyone else would have run for the hills long ago.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
• Things did used to be better, and not that long ago.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• Bouie saw her son have one of these nightmares not too long ago.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 9 May 2024
• Not that long ago, pitchers had teeth pulled to treat their arms.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• Though their style of worship changed long ago, the name stuck.
  — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
• If the world had shown any moral courage, this war would have been over long ago.
  — Nolan Lebovitz, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
• For Porter, that damage was done long ago.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
• But Freeling made his peace with that long ago.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2026
• Frozen ground contains the stems and roots of plants buried in soil long ago.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2021
• While the game wasn’t that long ago, much has changed for the two programs.
  — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Dec. 2025
• This is a year ago, August, not that long ago.
  — Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
• Not that long ago, the Brewers showed it could be done.
  — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
• The decade wasn’t that long ago, but there’s already been signs that point to yes.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2022
• Germany was the trading hotspot of the world not too long ago.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
• The two spoke on the phone not long ago, but only met today.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
• Not long ago, Stevenson was one of those bright-eyed campers.
  — oregonlive, 24 July 2021
• The constant pressure from two sides, they got used to long ago.
  — Dorota Sedek, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
• This was unimaginable not that long ago.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• There was a time—and not very long ago—that would have scoffed at 11% growth.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
• There was a time—not so very long ago—when world leaders felt obliged to lie to us.
  — Rosa Brooks, Washington Post, 15 June 2026
• Words written long ago find a new voice as they're set to music.
  — Edie Kasten, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
• How long ago was the management split?
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
• That's why all of those rockets were long ago aimed at those countries.
  — Robert Costa, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026