Bygones is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bygones meaning
Things that happened in the past.
Using Bygones
- The main meaning on this page is: Things that happened in the past.
- In the example corpus, bygones often appears in combinations such as: be bygones, let bygones, bygones be.
Context around Bygones
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bygones
- In this selection, "bygones" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, let, letting, broadway, carr, ever and group stand out and add context to how "bygones" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include bygones be bygones and to let bygones be bygones. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bygones" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bygones
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But hey, let bygones be bygones! (6 words)
Can bygones ever really be bygones? (6 words)
Oh well, let bygones be bygones. (6 words)
He tells Izzy that he’s learned a lot from this blindside, and he wants mercy: “Whoever saves me, if there is saving to be had, I can let bygones be bygones,” he tells her. (35 words)
In other news, it appears it's now all love between 2019 Big Brother Naija reality star, Tacha and Nigerian rapper, Zlatan, as they have chosen to let bygones to be bygones. (32 words)
Letting bygones be bygones, Carr trusted Olave on the Saints’ final play, targeting him a 15th time, only for a Jags cornerback to smother the wideout on a short fade route. (31 words)
Can bygones ever really be bygones? (6 words)
But hey, let bygones be bygones! (6 words)
Example sentences (14)
He tells Izzy that he’s learned a lot from this blindside, and he wants mercy: “Whoever saves me, if there is saving to be had, I can let bygones be bygones,” he tells her.
Letting bygones be bygones, Carr trusted Olave on the Saints’ final play, targeting him a 15th time, only for a Jags cornerback to smother the wideout on a short fade route.
But hey, let bygones be bygones!
Can bygones ever really be bygones?
However, she was ready to let bygones be bygones and consider starting afresh for the sake of her kid.
In other news, it appears it's now all love between 2019 Big Brother Naija reality star, Tacha and Nigerian rapper, Zlatan, as they have chosen to let bygones to be bygones.
I work with a lot of individuals who’ve experienced abuse & trauma & ‘let bygones be bygones’ does not work.
But, cut to present, everything seems like all right between Salman and Kareena and both decided to let bygones be bygones.
Oh well, let bygones be bygones.
It’s hard to say let bygones be bygones……… so I won’t.
The writer does this either by ignoring, incompetently or intentionally, important issues which must have been raised or amplifying Mnangagwa’s repeated mantra “let bygones be bygones”.
At any rate, this hole-y day of obligation reminds us it’s time to let bygones be and say goodbye to what won’t ever be whole again.
For more nostalgia and chat, visit the Leader's 'Local Bygones' group on Facebook.
Greater Learning Foundation meeting, Broadway Bygones, 5:30 p.m.
Common combinations with bygones
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- be bygones 11×
- let bygones 10×
- bygones be 10×
- of bygones 3×
- bygones as 2×