Sentence examples for a long past from inspiring English sources

Houses with a long past create heritages of their own.

China had been investing in Guinea Francee has a long past there.

Mr. Alexakis, 38, isn't afraid to admit he has a long past, and he seesaws between weighing what he has done and trying to forget it.

There is one caveat, however: such advertisements are persuasive only as long as they avoid mentioning that a fond remembrance of things past usually requires living through a long past in the first place.

Darwin's Origin of Species implied a long past for man, and the acceptance of the idea of human evolution in the last four decades of the 19th century created a climate of thought in which archaeology flourished and that led to great advances in the unfolding of the full story of man's development.

Compass also boasts a long past and an explosive present.

Why should we be constrained by arbitrary dictates that cement us in a long-past cultural and linguistic moment?

I used my thumb to cover over a long-past expiration date, slipped into the shorter line, and rebooked.

But we run the risk that for Christians it may appear only as a long-past and nearly dead history.

He and a partner recently bought a long-past-its-prime hotel in downtown Portland that they hope to convert into stores and offices.

"Sintra" deals with a journalist's return to Portugal with a younger lover, whom she ignores while fantasizing about a long-past love affair with a Portuguese painter named Luiz.