Sentence examples for a past time from inspiring English sources

"Snuffboxes were reminiscent of a past time and weren't used.

I sipped the long delight of a past time where ambition was too late.

If a caption includes a past time element, use a past tense verb or a participle, not present tense.

Watch the film, and the extra features — a tsk-tsking, two-minute newsreel from 1933 and a bleak 1972 documentary — for an unsparing look at a past time.

Perhaps Leider's style this time out is itself a kind of Method acting, the rhetorical channelling of a past time and milieu.

But the conglomeration of small details — the parts in the hair, choices of shoes and coffee cups, what one might call, in sum, fashion — put the scene in a past time.

It was also beautifully shot, like a horror film set in a Past Times catalogue.

One writer condemned Fellowes for leaving the victim "exposed, exploited, fetishised" in scenes that were "beautifully shot, like a horror film set in a Past Times catalogue".

His trademark motifs are plastered on everything from bags and bookmarks to tapestries and tea towels, the chintzy staples of many a Past Times catalogue.

They're not doing this as a past-time and for many of them there's no safety net.

"The problem is that in Uganda a sport like chess is considered a past-time, and there is no money to build up and support champions".