How to Use long ago in a Sentence

long ago

noun

• Not too long ago, the Coastal League was among the county’s best.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
• Germany was the trading hotspot of the world not too long ago.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
• 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
• That’s one lesson boomers seem to have learned long ago.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2023
• The answer to that question, the agency says, is not too long ago.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
• And the Kremlin long ago gave up caring about its image in the West.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• Once, long ago, a creature not quite human walked the Earth.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Seawater can flood the tower and breakers pound the roof and broke the glass long ago.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2023
• At 35 years old, Kershaw long ago lost the mid-90s mph life his fastball used to boast.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• But on a global scale, that price shock ended long ago.
  — Paul Wiseman and Evelyne Musambi, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
• To dream and to own Owning a home seemed a fantasy not too long ago, Sanders said.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2024
• People made up their minds about Mulkey long ago, so trying to set the record straight would just be a waste of time.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• Any one of these predators might have long ago dragged the skinks into the Wellington Caves, where the fossils were found.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
• In many cases, it was spent long ago to pay bills because people were out of work at the time.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• Columbus Day was long ago kneecapped, thrown in the trunk of a car, and dumped in a scrapyard somewhere in New Jersey.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• But wee moons, it was thought, should have lost their meager embers long ago.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
• Much of it is the result of the kinds of thunderstorms that John Nance and his Braniff colleagues long ago strove to avoid.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• For Bottas, 34, his interest in a project like this was sparked long ago.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2023
• There was a time not too long ago when the only skirt fashion insiders wanted to wear was the length of a blink.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 July 2023
• The device, no bigger than a credit card, had long ago succumbed to the spider web of cracks on its screen.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2023
• Fortifications built by the British in the 1600s were reclaimed long ago by the jungle.
  — Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Darlene has worked there for over 25 years and met Jim long ago when his band was performing at the space, known as TJ's Lounge.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2023
• Much of downtown San Francisco is built on the remains of sunken ships left behind when the bay was filled in long ago.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2023
• Its black hole would have stopped growing long ago, Wolf writes in the Conversation.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• One apartment frequently catches fire, but the stairs on the fire escape were sawed off and sold as scrap long ago.
  — John Eligon, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• It was deemed a vital business driver and commanded above-the-fold ink not that long ago.
  — Guy Courtin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Children or adults may have a fear of animals, such as rodents, that stems from long ago.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024