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in old days

ADVERB

before

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ahead back previously since sooner

WEAK

afore aforetime ante antecedently anteriorly before present ere fore former formerly forward heretofore in advance in days of yore in front in the old days in the past past precendently previous up to now

Antonyms

WEAK

after afterward behind later

Example Sentences

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Pam and I worked so well together, like in old days, so nice and close, total agreement.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2012

Fifty yards away was the two-story stone building where, in old days, Arab fellahin used to sit gossiping over Turkish coffee.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in old days before I went to school.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

But in these villages the houses are now seldom aggregated, as in old days of Apache and Yuma war, but scatter out for miles in farm homesteads.

From Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona by Lloyd, J. William

He would then wander away among the China Seas or the Indian Ocean, and I could pass an examination on the social habits of captains of sailing vessels that ran to Bombay in old days.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta