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12 example sentences for YORE, such as:
1. The room was lighted as of yore, and at the sound of our entrance, she stopped and turned.
2. His reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, rose in revolt.
3. I was a little sad to see that the world inhabited by these bands of yore is utterly gone.
4. When we accosted him, his manner was something more confused, and something less genteel, than of yore.
5. I ascended it now, in lighter boots than of yore, and tapped in my old way at the door of Miss Havisham's room.
2. His reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, rose in revolt.
3. I was a little sad to see that the world inhabited by these bands of yore is utterly gone.
4. When we accosted him, his manner was something more confused, and something less genteel, than of yore.
5. I ascended it now, in lighter boots than of yore, and tapped in my old way at the door of Miss Havisham's room.
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Meanings and Examples of YORE
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yore
n. in time past; long ago; in old time
Classic Sentence:
1 The room was lighted as of yore, and at the sound of our entrance, she stopped and turned.
2 I ascended it now, in lighter boots than of yore, and tapped in my old way at the door of Miss Havisham's room.
3 I heard a heavy puffing and blowing coming towards us, and soon Mr. Omer, shorter-winded than of yore, but not much older-looking, stood before me.
4 When we accosted him, his manner was something more confused, and something less genteel, than of yore.
5 "Shet yore mouth," directed Archie briefly.
6 Gliding among them, old Leviathan swam as of yore; was there swimming in that planisphere, centuries before Solomon was cradled.
7 A little older she looks; her form a little fuller; her air more matronly than of yore; but evidently contented and happy as woman need be.
8 Here was Louisa on the night of the same day, watching the fire as in days of yore, though with a gentler and a humbler face.
9 But the Milky Way, it seemed to me, was still the same tattered streamer of star-dust as of yore.
10 His reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, rose in revolt.
11 My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse.
Example Sentence:
1 I was a little sad to see that the world inhabited by these bands of yore is utterly gone.