How to Use some time ago in a Sentence

some time ago

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  • The right walked away some time ago.
    Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Howard noticed this some time ago.
    Katie Whyatt, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • But these moves were prepared some time ago and didn’t come as a surprise.
    Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Friends of mine put their two children on the title of their house some time ago.
    Ilyce Glink and Samuel Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But the idea is that the sun burnt itself out some time ago and no longer exists.
    Lauren Markham, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Jontay Porter was arrested some time ago.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Inevitably, the jostling for position began some time ago.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • My sister got married some time ago, and shot glasses were the wedding favors.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Some shows scheduled for early in 2022 were postponed some time ago.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • If that was some time ago, your home Wi-Fi could be due an upgrade to the latest standard.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • And the good news is that the worst of the pandemic’s impact on the economy ended some time ago.
    Lisa Miller, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2022
  • In addition, cast options expired some time ago with many moving on to other projects.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 24 July 2026
  • Mediators among those close to both brothers have tried in the past to find a way through the estrangement, but that was some time ago.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In any event, a tweeter pointed out to me that Bono arrived at his view of capitalism some time ago.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Adolf Loos put these questions to his readers some time ago — in 1898, to be exact.
    Guy Trebay, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • After all, Liverpool emerged as champions elect some time ago.
    Simon Hughes, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • As is usual, internal due diligence on successors started some time ago.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The departure is described as amicable and happened some time ago.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
  • This decline in confidence began to be transformed into policy some time ago.
    Jeffrey Herbst, New York Daily News, 30 May 2025
  • The impact shouldn’t be massive, though, because a Republican win might already have been priced in some time ago.
    David Wainer, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Here’s the plan that seems right to us, admittedly from the perspective of outsiders who left Intel’s board some time ago.
    Charlene Barshefsky, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The existing toilet was designed some time ago when there were few, if any, female astronauts staying on the space station.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Having transitioned to commercial operations some time ago, Gatik is in a league of its own.
    Richard Bishop, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Just as Packers fans had to embrace Rodgers, Favre had to realize some time ago his franchise records would be erased.
    Ryan Wood, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2021
  • My Advisory Committee and I had been speaking about this space and had seen it some time ago.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Although each new rhetorical blow against the alliance brings a fresh shock, analysts say that Europe got the message some time ago.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Guts is Rodrigo’s second project to hit that prestigious mark, as her debut Sour reached the same milestone some time ago.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The predominance of fine western art and Navaho rugs underlines the fact that Caan went cowboy some time ago.
    Jean Vallely, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2022
  • Each animal has a unique set of measurements, so a photograph of one taken yesterday can be matched with an image taken some time ago.
    Emily Wanderer, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Standen takes over from Neal McDonough in the lead role with the former exiting the project some time ago for undisclosed reasons.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 July 2026

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