Sentence examples for a past generation from inspiring English sources

"I'm from a past generation," he says.

We are beneficiaries of a past generation that sacrificed for us.

It is easy – facile, indeed – to complain when a past generation offends modern values.

It's not just a matter of making fun of the old-fashioned products and notions of a past generation.

"The Mugabe style belongs to a past generation, the one that takes power hostage, and this is no longer the AU creed".

One example is contained in a 1957 dissenting opinion by Justice William O. Douglas, joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Hugo Black — liberal lions of a past generation.

"Smooth, pale, soft skin: she could have a rich past generation on her mother's side".

Over the past generation a new wave of 500,000 Muslim immigrants have made Spain their home.

The nickname refers to Real Madrid, the most famous and successful soccer club in the world, which has made a practice, in the past generation, of spending enough money to recruit Zidane and Beckham and Cannavaro.

Neutrality, if maintained, may prove to be a grace in a starving nation of three million, where war has taken perhaps a quarter of a million lives in the past generation.

A distant memory of a big crash from the past generation will do little to inhibit similarly ridiculous investing patterns ten, twenty or thirty years later.