PAST in a Sentence
Learn PAST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for PAST, such as:
1. The age of miracles is past.
2. Then, hesitating, dribbled past.
3. Time past cannot be called back again.
4. I admit that I have made mistakes in the past.
5. I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past.
2. Then, hesitating, dribbled past.
3. Time past cannot be called back again.
4. I admit that I have made mistakes in the past.
5. I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PAST
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
past
a. earlier than the present time; no longer current
n. a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Not a soul did I meet all the way down, though a cab or two went past me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2 In his eagerness he had wandered far past the ravines which were known to him, and it was no easy matter to pick out the path which he had taken.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3 In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days.
4 They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments.
5 But at this moment the three cows, who had seemed uneasy for some time past, set up a loud lowing.
6 After the hoisting of the flag, the animals were required to file past the skull in a reverent manner before entering the barn.
7 A special committee of pigs had been at work upon them for the past three weeks.
8 They added that Snowball had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones's secret agent for years past.
9 The animals filed slowly past, and each gazed his fill.
10 At about half past nine Napoleon, wearing an old bowler hat of Mr. Jones's, was distinctly seen to emerge from the back door, gallop rapidly round the yard, and disappear indoors again.
11 She was two years past the retiring age, but in fact no animal had ever actually retired.
12 There had also been a very strange custom, whose origin was unknown, of marching every Sunday morning past a boar's skull which was nailed to a post in the garden.
13 Then, hesitating, dribbled past.
14 This is the burden that the past laid on me, last little donkey in the long caravanserai crossing the desert.
15 She had come out on to the path that led past the greenhouse.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Not until this turbulent region can shuffle off the burdens of the past will it be able to settle peacefully into the community of nations.
2 I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past.
3 In the past, I only wanted people to see the best of me.
4 The past is for wisdom, the present for action, but for joy the future.
5 Add -ed to all these verbs to put them in the past tense.
6 I admit that I have made mistakes in the past.
7 Time past cannot be called back again.
8 The age of miracles is past.
9 You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.
10 Stories about his past are flying around among the students.
11 We did an analysis of the way that government money has been spent in the past.
12 The president deployed the weapon with which he has calmed past discontents, saying he would announce his heir-apparent.
13 She snarled abuse at anyone who happened to walk past.
14 The article was a savage attack on her past actions.
15 Children challenge their parents' authority far more nowadays than they did in the past.