(n.) The day last past; the day next before the present.
(n.) Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.
(adv.) On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(3) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
(4) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
(5) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
(6) A senior shadow minister, who has not been named by the Telegraph in its exposé of MPs' expenses , was yesterday asked by county councillors not to campaign for next month's local elections.
(7) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(8) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
(9) Yesterday a new French president was elected – he was elected with a strong mandate which he can take into a strong position in negotiations.
(10) At yesterday's EGM in London some 93% of votes cast by non-Bolloré Group shareholders opposed his plan.
(11) "Oil is extending the weakness that we saw yesterday.
(12) A number of other news organisations yesterday published reports based on files they had received from WikiLeaks.
(13) This was incredible - Selby somehow hung in there yesterday, taking frames when apparently outclassed, and then when he needed to turn it up today, he did - 13-4 turned it up.
(14) I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion,” she wrote.
(15) Yesterday's results: Torino 1-0 Cagliari, Siena 0-0 Livorno, Sampdoria 2-1 Atalanta, Reggina 1-1 Fiorentina, Palermo 0-0 Milan, Lazio 3-1 Catania, Inter 1-1 Udinese, Empoli 3-1 Messina, Chievo 2-2 Roma, Ascoli 0-0 Parma.
(16) Letterman was summoned to a grand jury hearing later yesterday at which he gave his side of the story.
(17) Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, confirmed in his first media policy speech yesterday that Labour's plan for independently financed news consortiums would be scrapped .
(18) Yesterday, John McDonnell spelled out the new Labour leadership’s public investment-driven economic alternative to austerity.
(19) Yesterday student occupations were continuing in at least nine universities – including sit-ins in Leeds, Cambridge, Manchester, Edinburgh, University College London, Brighton, Newcastle and the School of African and Oriental Studies in London.
(20) Mandela was admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg yesterday and South African media report that he has been seen by a specialist pulmonologist who treats respiratory disorders.
Yesteryear
Definition:
(n.) The year last past; last year.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rapid advances in Information Technology in recent years have provided powerful computers and software that can be innovatively applied to create powerful pedagogical courseware that go beyond what precursors like the PLATO project could do on the mainframes of yesteryear.
(2) But, considering the high stakes involved in the gamble to permit suboptimal glucose regulation, it seems no longer rational to regard hyperglycemia as any more inevitable in the diabetic, than was "laudable pus" in the post-operative patient of yesteryear.
(3) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
(4) So this is not just politics as usual but the politics of yesteryear tarted up and paraded as the only game in town.
(5) There, you wallow in yesteryear’s fabulosity, cast off by someone whose spending habits you’re morally outraged by but whose taste you can’t fault.
(6) Photograph: Joe Whittle for the Guardian He and his friends are the peaceful modern-day equivalent of the famous Great Plains horse warriors of yesteryear.
(7) Cameron has brought him in to review social mobility, and he owes no fealty to Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, denizens of the enemy camp of yesteryear.
(8) Yet his love for the mythic Britain of yesteryear pre-dates his starring role in the Brexit drama.
(9) The right wing of the party have got no vision so they are going back to yesteryear,” he told Sky News.
(10) James May's mission to bring the toys of yesteryear back to life brought BBC2 3.5 million viewers and a 15% share of the audience last night, Tuesday 27 October.
(11) It also has the advantage that it retains the formality of yesteryear.
(12) These days, the Christmas songs piped through shops and malls are the familiar classics of yesteryear.
(13) And although we wouldn't be British if we didn't sometimes hark back to the golden programmes of yesteryear, the truth is that programme for programme measured appreciation for TV today is at a high; that overall television viewing is up despite the many competing claims on people's attention; and that the public have lapped up the iPlayer and other catch-up and on-demand services because they know there are programmes of real quality and value out there.
(14) If CLG were to be dismantled and Pickles, a man of Conservative yesteryear, along with it, who is there left to upset?
(15) Yesteryear (Star Trek: The Animated Series) Season 1, episode 2.
(16) If you put it back where it should be, in Paris, it would be a more confident statement.” While this is true, the Galliano of 2015 is a humbler creature than the preening peacock of yesteryear who took his bows at Christian Dior shows dressed like a cross between Errol Flynn and Keith Richards.
(17) Some British readers might know it better as the theme from Our Tune on Simon Bates’ Radio 1 show of yesteryear.
(18) Some of the most difficult tasks for a chairman are (1) the prioritization of his or her responsibilities and activities, (2) representing both the university and the department when their goals appear to conflict, (3) recognizing that an autocratic chairman may administer the department with less difficulty and even appear to have more respect than a democratic chairman, (4) learning to expect less accolades and appreciation from faculty than the clinical chairmen of yesteryear, and (5) resisting the commitment of valuable time to negotiations or battles that cannot be won or to activities that do not benefit the department or the university.
(19) Oh and some of the super-powered kinks of yesteryear – the unstoppable headers, the volleys from the corner of the box – have been ironed out, apparently.
(20) Perhaps the most jarring aspect of this circus is the attempt to positively colour the failed wars of today with a poorly doctored history of the conflicts of yesteryear.