YESTERDAY in a Sentence

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322 example sentences for YESTERDAY, such as:

1. No man cool call back yesterday.
2. She started on her trip yesterday morning.
3. She was married yesterday to young Drebber.
4. The boss sacked a dilatory worker yesterday.
5. 'You did well yesterday, my dear,' said Fagin.

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 Meanings and Examples of YESTERDAY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
yesterday
 n.  the day immediately before today
 ad.  on the day preceding today
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I spent the whole of yesterday evening in making enquiries entirely without avail.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  She was married yesterday to young Drebber.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  No one won't have her very long though, for I saw death in her face yesterday.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4  Yes, perched on the wall, they seemed to foretell what after all the Times was saying yesterday.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
5  I had the pleasure of watching your house yesterday morning, and following you here.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
6  I thank thee, Waldemar," said the Prince; "thou remindest me, too, that I have a debt to pay to that insolent peasant who yesterday insulted our person.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  The painter was sent off yesterday, and very little will remain of the theatre to-morrow.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  As she walked slowly upstairs she thought of yesterday; it had been about the same hour that she had returned from the Parsonage, and found Edmund in the East room.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  I would not allow myself yesterday to say how delighted, or to repeat half that the Admiral said in his praise.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  Fanny had hoped, in the course of his yesterday's visit, to hear the day named; but he had only spoken of their journey as what would take place ere long.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  I was very much pleased by her manner of speaking of it yesterday, particularly pleased, because I had not depended upon her seeing everything in so just a light.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  'I don't know,' said Mr. Brownlow; 'I rather think I had a damp napkin at dinner-time yesterday; but never mind that.'
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  But yesterday morning you had made up your mind, in a great hurry, to stay here, and to accompany your mother, like a dutiful son, to the sea-side.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  'You did well yesterday, my dear,' said Fagin.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  I was very well yesterday; nothing at all the matter with me till this morning.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
16  She started on her trip yesterday morning.
17  Under the terms of the contract the job should have been finished yesterday.
18  If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
19  The value of sterling increased against several other currencies yesterday.
20  Political leaders united yesterday to condemn the latest wave of violence.
21  The vote yesterday appears to mark something of a turning point in the war.
22  These new neighbours, to whom I was introduced yesterday, have come here from Singapore.
23  Police are investigating the death of an unidentified man whose body was found in Crackley Woods yesterday.
24  The worker of today is different from the worker of yesterday.
25  The boss sacked a dilatory worker yesterday.
26  The only person you should compare yourself to, is the person you were yesterday.
27  The Spanish media were still sniping at the British press yesterday.
28  British athletes had mixed fortunes in yesterday's competition.
29  Banks and building societies were yesterday accused of monumental incompetence.
30  No man cool call back yesterday.