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Example sentences for "yesterday"

Lexicographically close words:
yes; yese; yeshibah; yest; yester; yesterdays; yestereve; yesternight; yestiddy; yestreen
  1. Father said only yesterday he was thinking of taking me to England at once.

  2. Yesterday I bought the stock of a Canadian railway.

  3. Yesterday she was a slave, sold in Circassian mart, and freedom to her is so new and strange that she does not know what to do with it.

  4. Now see what I am doing--yesterday I hoped never again to see Lassalle, and now I am planning and praying he will come to me.

  5. I am today what I am because I was yesterday what I was.

  6. My husband dined yesterday with Guy; you know, the tall Guy, who is an aide of Leboeuf.

  7. The Prince of NĂ©rins, whose word has so much weight in such matters, said yesterday evening to every one who would listen, "She is the most beautiful woman in Paris.

  8. I received yesterday a visit from the correspondent of the Times, a most agreeable and sensible man.

  9. I dined yesterday with his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales.

  10. He went over to Truro yesterday to the wrastlin', an' got thrawed.

  11. Then the sands began to trickle again, and the rushes to whisper and bend away from the sea, toward the high moors over which the gulls had flown yesterday and disappeared.

  12. Am I she who yesterday had a husband and a child?

  13. What did Mr Bickers mean by talking of a joke, and thrusting back upon him the very proofs which but yesterday had been objects of such anxious care and solicitude to them both?

  14. When I saw you yesterday I asked you to look at a letter I had with me.

  15. As to the management of your house, I assure you in what I did yesterday I had no intention of assisting you.

  16. Felgate, smarting and bewildered, walked back to his house with the parcel under his arm, furious with Mr Bickers, and as eager now for revenge on him as yesterday he had been for revenge on Railsford.

  17. Oh, I know; I had to report one of my prefects yesterday for gambling.

  18. He must have received it yesterday morning.

  19. I confess that when yesterday we spoke of a child I was thinking all the time about a boy.

  20. He was run over yesterday by a four-wheeler.

  21. Run over yesterday just outside the Mansions, and by a four-wheeler.

  22. I was yesterday taken by surprise, and saw it superficially.

  23. But yesterday he came and poured himself out to me.

  24. He said yesterday that no other woman existed for him beside you.

  25. Until yesterday when Lydgate had opened to her a glimpse of some trouble in his married life, the image of Mrs. Lydgate had always been associated for her with that of Will Ladislaw.

  26. I mentioned to you yesterday what was the state of my affairs.

  27. She began now to live through that yesterday morning deliberately again, forcing herself to dwell on every detail and its possible meaning.

  28. Do you know, Lovegood was telling me yesterday that you had the best notion in the world of a plan for cottages--quite wonderful for a young lady, he thought.

  29. I had an errand yesterday which I did not finish; that is why I am here again so soon.

  30. Yes, sir, the former president of the Midland Company was shot to death yesterday for pocket-picking.

  31. He destroyed the check, and as the company's option expired yesterday it was unlawful for the company to trespass on my land.

  32. The day before yesterday her sympathies had been with Corrigan--she had thought.

  33. She told me yesterday that she was engaged to marry a man named Corrigan.

  34. Sidney, before going home, walked round to the street in which he had already lingered several times to-day, and where yesterday he had spoken with Clara.

  35. Yesterday he had had an interview with old Mr. Percival which, for the first time in his life, opened to him a prospect of the only kind of advancement conformable with his higher needs.

  36. This morning I've been to try and see her again, but they tell me she went away yesterday afternoon.

  37. We were brought here yesterday by Chichely's men, having been seized in our retreat on the coast.

  38. Now we come to yesterday morning," said the speaker.

  39. A reconnaissance of thirty miles forward yesterday by Colonel Farquhar ascertained that the pools were barely sufficient for a rapid march to the village of Serakna, now deserted, where there are a few wells.

  40. Lesseps telegraphed to Paris as follows:-- "The English Admiral having announced the occupation of Ismailia, I went yesterday on board the Orion with Victor.

  41. The attack yesterday was very sudden and determined, and came unfortunately on our weakest point.

  42. What a bridgeless gulf between yesterday morning and to-night!

  43. He was not there yesterday when I called, and his servants could tell me nothing of his whereabouts," the young Yorkshireman said very coolly.

  44. Or are all the deep-laid schemes of yesterday as stubborn in his heart, and as busy in his brain, as ever?

  45. Yesterday I told myself that I would send Ino to him, and then end my misery forever.

  46. She was buried yesterday afternoon, and I am now entirely alone in the world.

  47. But I explained to you," expostulated the old man, "that my treasured cup disappeared mysteriously, and also that yesterday I came upon these four boys acting in a suspicious manner close to my enclosed grounds.

  48. Besides, I don't believe it's as good a morning for fishing as yesterday was.

  49. Yesterday I became excited and almost said too much, and to-day I rush madly in and mix up affairs in the math.

  50. I caught my heel in it yesterday and ripped the binding almost off.

  51. We ought to have fought yesterday and destroyed Lee, while Harper's Ferry was still holding out!

  52. How did you stand that fighting yesterday afternoon, George?

  53. But you saw him yesterday for the first time!

  54. Sachs is for a moment really deceived; "It was your humour yesterday not to try it on.

  55. The King's followers are for seizing and thrusting him aside; but the soldier, famous no longer ago than yesterday for every sort of superiority, stands his ground and says what he is determined to say.

  56. What time it was taken away yesterday I cannot tell: for I did not concern myself about it, till towards night; and then it was not there.

  57. I ought yesterday to have acknowledged the receipt of your parcel.

  58. I'll give you the substance of a conversation [no fear you can be made to like him worse than you do already] that passed between Sir Harry Downeton and this Solmes, but three days ago, as Sir Harry told it but yesterday to my mother and me.

  59. Finally she said: "I am very sorry that I deceived you yesterday morning.

  60. And you did not seem to understand yesterday when I called upon you.

  61. Yesterday you have a visit--a visit of a professional nature--from Edyth Vale.

  62. Yesterday you said he was small, that he was near-sighted, that he was well dressed and knew something of the modern German dramatists.

  63. But if you had given me the facts as you intended doing when you called me on the 'phone yesterday morning, I'd have had twenty-four hours start of them, at least.

  64. He hanged himself yesterday afternoon at Edward Street, in the slip-house after the works were closed.

  65. These men look for spirit, and strength, and safety in the right quarter, and they themselves yesterday exhibited the proof.

  66. A better means of estimating the strength of the Chartists than has yet been afforded, was afforded by the exhibition yesterday on Kennington Common.

  67. And after a short silence she continued: "Do you remember, yesterday we were talking of wings?

  68. No; but yesterday I promised Frau Luise that I would visit her.

  69. We know all that he did from five o'clock yesterday afternoon to the time you found him, Mr. Brent," said Hawthwaite.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yesterday" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    before; beforetime; earlier; heretofore; historically; history; hitherto; past; previously; recently; then; yesterday; yore


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    yesterday afternoon; yesterday evening