Sentence examples for a bygone generation from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a bygone generation" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a past era or group of people that are no longer present or relevant in the current context. Example: "The traditions of a bygone generation often shape the values we hold today."
Tobias Stone and Henry Francis were special inductees, respectively winning the Von Zedtwitz Award for players of a bygone generation and the Blackwood Award for services to the game other than at the table.
In that sense, the city is little different from the place a bygone generation of Americans visited for long-weekend romps of sex and sun and rum-filled cocktails.
In Miss Shoemaker's Stalinist homeroom of a bygone generation, Peter's sin was a transgression comparable to one that would trigger metal detector alarms to scream at today's school entrances.
But his commentary, which aims to make the concerns of a bygone generation of intellectuals accessible to today's readers, ends up subtly belittling them.
This is optimistic: the last Democrat to win a Senate seat from Mississippi was John Stennis in 1982, and he was of a bygone generation, having supported racial segregation for much of his life and voted against the Civil Rights Act in 1964.Iowa's Republican primaries were less brutal, but equally colourful.
Mr. Reed called her "a majestic figure in American music, a direct gateway to bygone generations that feel so foreign today".
Such words would have surprised bygone generations, for Breckland was always seen as an unforgiving and desolate place.
This British label has established its coveted aesthetic as a mix of modern-classic prints and retro-styled but timeless cute buttons and pockets, reinventing garments beloved of bygone generations.
Skeptics of those bygone generations would have sat down on the spot to write me that 300-word essay I asked for.
It's strangely anthropological, like examining the artefacts of a bygone civilisation – only, of course, it's our own, a generation removed.
Of course, we have our own glamour stars of today, and rather than recreate a moment of a bygone era, why not set our own standard for the next generation?
