Sentence examples for an earlier generation from inspiring English sources

Defying an earlier generation of generic NBC executives, David Letterman did become the uncontested heir to Johnny Carson.

An alumnus from an earlier generation is Wally Joyner, who played 16 seasons in the majors.

'Treasures of an earlier generation,' he sighs.

Ditto Iain Macleod in an earlier generation.

Perhaps it was even more pronounced in an earlier generation.

That was the darling of an earlier generation.

In fact, an earlier generation of longhairs devised an elegant solution to precisely this problem.

Like Charles Darwin and an earlier generation of British intellectuals, he found slavery particularly abhorrent.

Children here swap beta invitations the way an earlier generation swapped baseball cards.

Classicists of an earlier generation would have bemoaned her mixing of pronouns.

Thom Jones's "The Pugilist at Rest," from 1991, relates a similar tale from an earlier generation.