Sentence examples for some distant past from inspiring English sources

In a measure of just how much has changed for the Huskies in the past 10 months, however, the items already seem like artifacts from some distant past.

The story seems to take place in some distant past, until a mobile phone rings.

This case took place not in some distant past but in our own turbulent present.

Such bipartisan cooperation, the kind Mr. Obama spoke of in his campaign, now seems like a relic from some distant past.

"We want everyone to know that these massacres didn't happen during some distant past but 10 years after the end of the first world war," Kelly says.

"Awww," my 5-year-old daughter would say, catching sight of a tom on our way to the playground, "isn't he cute?" We would pretend we lived in some distant past, that we were the first humans to set foot on this land.

Did he [Eugen] understand?" After an ironic aside about novels, ("the perfect way to capture the most fleeting essence of the present for the future") and historical novels in particular ("a foolish undertaking for an author, as was becoming the fashion these days, to choose some already distant past as his setting"), we plunge into Humboldt's early life and adventures abroad.

A simple explanation of the dates on which the mundus was opened: August 24, October 5, November 8. Half of the paper is about human sacrifices, supporting the view that there were none, other than one exceptional one in some undetermined distant past.

DONALD DITULLIO 'Riding Free and Forever' When the people who admired Donald DiTullio think about him, some go to the distant past, some to the recent past and some to the future, but it is always with fondness.

In an exhibition as much about information as about objects, all these pieces interconnect, some in the distant past.

At some point in the distant past, the ancestors of Tremblaya infected the ancestors of mealybugs.