What's the difference between yore and yours?

Yore


Definition:

  • (adv.) In time long past; in old time; long since.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The subjects of 2015’s most exciting underground publications are a world away from the stapled-together, photocopied, fanzines of yore.
  • (2) With its stripped-back stone slab, here hovering above a line of Corinthian columns, it speaks volumes about this moment in time, its architecture used to embody rapid modernisation, nostalgia for historical greatness and the imagined national unity of yore.
  • (3) Yore's alleged crime is the production and distribution of child pornography.
  • (4) Since feminists – and anti-feminists – of yore spent so much time scrapping over the politics of female orgasm, it is useful to get the basic physiology down.
  • (5) On Saturday, protesters demanded Linden re-open the gallery which, aside from Yore's piece, houses the Like Mike exhibition, a series of work by seven artists in tribute to the late Mike Brown, the only Australian artist to be successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
  • (6) Paul Yore, 26, pleaded not guilty to producing and possessing child pornography over an installation that included images of nude adults with children’s faces attached.
  • (7) Chambers said Yore’s work would divide opinion, offending some people while others would see it as a right to freedom of expression.
  • (8) Or that they fear the changes that have followed as a result of this prolonged near-zero rate policy will make it impossible for them to manage the rate hikes as smoothly and gracefully as in days of yore?
  • (9) Now led by Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds), the self-styled King-Beyond-the Wall, the Free People look poised to descend on the sissy south in season three, in a campaign perhaps modelled on Bonnie Prince Charlie's raids into the heartland of the effete sassenachs of yore, or the Vikings marching on Stamford Bridge.
  • (10) But Jason Smith, the director of the Heide Museum of Modern Art, said Yore’s work was of outstanding merit.
  • (11) West Brom have now come from behind to earn points in their last three games – beating Arsenal and drawing at West Ham – and with the wind swirling wildly around and the Hawthorns crowd finally buying into “Tony Pulis’s blue and white army” with encouraging gusto, Spurs of yore might have wilted.
  • (12) The interview room currently plays host to Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe, Ashley Cooper, Neale Fraser, the grand slam giants of yore.
  • (13) In times of yore you would have woken up in a panic, scrambling in the dark, trying to find your fur coat or velvet smoking jacket.
  • (14) Yore’s art dealer Geoff Newton said the artist was happy to have the court battle behind him.
  • (15) Yore is yet to be charged over child pornography offences, which can carry a 10-year prison sentence.
  • (16) Clearly Paul Yore’s work is confronting, and intentionally so,” she said.
  • (17) In a promotional interview played to the court, Yore said it was an homage to avant-garde artist Mike Brown and was deliberately confrontational.
  • (18) Slowly they return, the clean-shaven, square-jawed heroes of yore, displaced for so many years now by their darker, more intricately conflicted brethren,” noted the Los Angeles Times TV critic, Mary McNamara.
  • (19) "That's not to justify paedophilia and exploitation, but I'm not sure that Paul Yore's non-binary view of sexuality is a major risk to society.
  • (20) In fact, to find a Clooney film I properly enjoyed I'd have to go all the way back to Fantastic Mr Fox, released back in the time of yore (ie 2009).

Yours


Definition:

  • (pron.) See the Note under Your.

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