How do you use Ago in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like past, plus the exact meaning.

Common word

Ago in a sentence

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Ago meaning

Before now, before the present time

Synonyms of Ago

agone past

Example sentences (20)

We’re very worried Midleton will be forgotten next week, it was Bandon a few years ago, it was Fermoy a few years ago.

A lot of people don’t remember the flu ‘we all had a couple months ago’ because we all didn’t have the flu months ago.

One might assume scientists long ago settled this basic question, first explored nearly a century ago by Edwin Hubble.

Prices in Texas are 20.7 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 95.4 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.

It’s not something that I thought I would be doing, I think, if you asked me that question five years ago, 10 years ago.

The TV star told : "I went on HRT about a year and a half ago and realised I should have done that about five years ago.

Two or three months ago – or even two weeks ago – if I saw a couple of bad shots it was like, “˜What do I fix?

Honestly, if you look at it, I could have done this process a long time ago and I could have approved it a long time ago.

How is it that there are words that we used maybe 50 years ago, 100 years ago, and they have mutated in terms of meaning.

The skills a leader needs today are different from the skills needed a generation ago — or even a decade ago.

The seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 35.4, up from 31.4 a week ago and up from 34 a month ago.

So, a few days ago, we’d play it day-by-day but a few days ago when China responded with tariffs, it gave us some concern.

The national average is down 17.3 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 12.6 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.

The market was very low two or three years ago, but equally so was the workload two or three years ago.

Clearly, investors deeply underestimated Big Tech ten years ago, but did things change five years ago?

If this particular carjacker did indeed commit a carjacking 25 months ago, do you think they should have been free two days ago?

Let us not forget that this awfulness occurred just over two hundred years ago, three generations ago.

The construction of the outer harbour started seven years ago but stopped about a year and a half ago.

Meanwhile, the U.S. average held steady on the week at $2.19, a penny less than a month ago and 45 cents cheaper than a year ago.

A long time ago, gosh, seven, eight years ago, my wife and I got an apartment because God told us to.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "ago" in a sentence?
An example: "We’re very worried Midleton will be forgotten next week, it was Bandon a few years ago, it was Fermoy a few years ago." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "ago" from real English texts.
What does "ago" mean?
Ago means: Before now, before the present time
What are synonyms of "ago"?
Common synonyms of "ago" include: agone, past.
How many example sentences with "ago" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "ago", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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