How to Use olden in a Sentence

olden

adjective

• What was life like in the olden days?
• Yep, kids, in the olden days, parents had to lug around one of those to record home movies.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
• In olden times, sailors used the frayed end of a rope dipped in saltwater.
  — Michael E. Ruane, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2020
• But now One Chicago bar is taking the Mai Tai back to the olden days.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Apr. 2023
• In the olden days, writers were taught to put the mark –30– at the bottom of a story to indicate the end.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Just like in the olden days, Antioch had the coal mines and people worked there.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
• When dinner was over, the kids left the house and went outside to play, which is something children did in the olden days.
  — Lisa Scottoline, Philly.com, 24 June 2017
• This wasn’t a problem back in olden times, when the setting of the sun ended light exposure for the day.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
• In ye olden days of 2012, e-books were often cheaper than hard copies.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• David, Don Quixote lived in olden times, when people were very strict about the kind of stories that were allowed to be told.
  — J. M. Coetzee, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Prefer learning about the, ahem, saucier side of olden times?
  — Jenna Schnuer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2021
• That myth also implies that the unions that emerged in those olden times are no longer necessary.
  — David Scott Witwer, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2019
• That myth also implies that the unions that emerged in those olden times are no longer necessary.
  — David Scott Witwer, The Conversation, 26 Nov. 2019
• That myth also implies that the unions that emerged in those olden times are no longer necessary.
  — David Scott Witwer, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2019
• That myth also implies that the unions that emerged in those olden times are no longer necessary.
  — David Scott Witwer, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2019
• That myth also implies that the unions that emerged in those olden times are no longer necessary.
  — David Scott Witwer, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2019
• That myth also implies that the unions that emerged in those olden times are no longer necessary.
  — David Scott Witwer, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2019
• That myth also implies that the unions that emerged in those olden times are no longer necessary.
  — David Scott Witwer, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2019
• That myth also implies that the unions that emerged in those olden times are no longer necessary.
  — David Scott Witwer, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2019
• In the olden days, people applied perfume and talcum powder to try to cover up the smell of BO.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
• Yes, a long time ago was a decade when the coolest thing a girl could have was a collection of dolls with outfits and books designed to teach them about the olden days.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• However, the cost of living has risen in Seattle since the olden days, and these jokers are making about the same salary.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• In ye olden days, a lord or lady might wear a locket holding an image of their beloved or a ring made of a lock of their lover's hair.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Teen Vogue, 18 Jan. 2018
• The handmade crystal decanter is designed around the shape of a ‘dirk,’ a Scottish dagger of olden times.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2023
• Which is why Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider (circa ye olden days of 2001) will always have a place in our hearts.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 27 Mar. 2017
• Which is why Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider (circa ye olden days of 2001) will always have a place in our hearts.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 27 Mar. 2017
• Photograph: Getty Images In olden times, people dug holes in the ground to look for gold.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025
• In the olden days, celebs would wear sunglasses inside the show — more to hide their clear enjoyment of the libations than to look cool.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
• In the olden days, a lot of winter beers were conceptualized as stronger with more alcohol.
  — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
• Fiction back in the olden days.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025