AGO in a Sentence

Learn AGO 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.

For AGO, below is one of 381 sentences:
The freshly green foliage looked sickly, the dogwood pallid, and the flowering crab, so beautifully pink a moment ago, faded and dreary.

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 Meanings and Examples of AGO
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ago
 ad.  in the past
 a.  gone by; past
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A moment ago he had wondered what he and Mattie were to live on when they reached the West; now he saw that he had not even the money to take her there.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  It was little more than a year ago, on just such a soft afternoon, with a "feel" of spring in the air.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  The boys looked uncomfortable, recalling their mother's conduct three months ago when they had come home, by request, from the University of Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  But since that day two years ago when Ashley, newly home from his three years' Grand Tour in Europe, had called to pay his respects, she had loved him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  If you had any sense you'd have married Stuart or Brent Tarleton long ago.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  And then, in a wheedling tone: "When I was mentioning the Tarletons the while ago, I wasn't pushing them."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  The big house burned a year ago and the fields are growing up in brush and seedling pine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  Carreen should have been asleep long ago.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  The freshly green foliage looked sickly, the dogwood pallid, and the flowering crab, so beautifully pink a moment ago, faded and dreary.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  Scarlett thought for an instant that if she had not flirted so blatantly with Stuart at that political speaking a year ago, he might have married India long ere this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Just a little over a year ago, she was dancing and wearing bright clothes instead of this dark mourning and was practically engaged to three boys.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  How strange that Ashley should be impressed by something that scamp had said a year ago.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  As for Scarlett, she had long ago become resigned to Melanie's habit of seeing good in everyone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
14  For your information, I was in England, not a month ago, and I'll tell you this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  Regret to inform you Major Wilkes missing since scouting expedition three days ago.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
16  Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.
17  She managed a clothes shop two years ago.
18  I began the book six months ago, but I can't seem to finish it.
19  We bought our house several years ago.
20  She was hired three years ago.
21  I saw Tom three days ago.
22  These ridiculous rules and regulations should have been done away with years ago.
23  There were forest clearances in Java thousands of years ago.
24  He laid the book on the book shelf a moment ago.
25  My pay has not increased from the rate fixed two years ago.
26  Grandmother has a good memory;she can remember things which happened many years ago.
27  He taught physics to the students at a college ten years ago.
28  Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.
29  The plan was decisively rejected by Congress three weeks ago.
30  He was killed a few days ago in a skiing accident.