in the olden days
Example Sentences
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"I do have to deal with quite a lot of incoming, what you would have called flak in the olden days, but now they call it trolling," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025
How did people put up with this in the olden days?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2022
But in the olden days, he added, “life expectancy was much, much shorter and people died of infections before they ever could get cancer.”
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2021
"The most amazing thing about the Hawaiians, is back in the olden days they had more people living there and living off the land," says Keolanui.
From Salon • Jul. 14, 2021
What if it were made of real leather, like in the olden days?
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
