Sentence examples for bygone phrase from inspiring English sources
The shock of the new is a bygone phrase.
With a vocabulary of bygone phrases ("doll face") and a few old dirty jokes ("A woman was having sex with her husband, and an earthquake woke her up"), Mr. Silverman has won over the likes of Paris and Nicky Hilton, Matthew McConaughey and a pre-rehab Lindsay Lohan, as well as the nearly famous and non-famous who frequent the house.
To anyone who's come into Harvey Weinstein's orbit or considered his now-bygone career, the phrase "open secret" hardly applies: His history of alleged sexual assault and harassment recently revealed by the New York Times and the New Yorker was no secret at all.
The phrase "time-based art" suggests a bygone era when ephemerality, duration, and process were the attributes of a radical new art that found its outlet through performance and its documentation through the camera.
"Let bygones be bygones," Buhrdorf recalls saying.
"Let bygones be bygones," Dreier joked.
.," "Let bygones be bygones..
"Let bygones be bygones," he said.
His phrasing smacks of something straight out of bygone era, when "women entering the workplace," was even something to be debated.
As a diehard taxonomist in the classic Linnaean mold, was Papa Heinrich a vestige of a bygone age — engaged in mere "stamp collecting," in Isaac Asimov's withering phrase?
She also had a wonderful turn of phrase in a courtly Urdu that belonged to a bygone era and so the act of writing was also an act of preserving that fading language.
