Wondering how to use Yesterday in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as day or yesteryear.
Yesterday meaning
- The day immediately before today; one day ago.
- The past, often in terms of being outdated.
Synonyms of Yesterday
Using Yesterday
- The main meaning on this page is: The day immediately before today; one day ago. | The past, often in terms of being outdated.
- Useful related words include: day, yesteryear, past times, past.
- In the example corpus, yesterday often appears in combinations such as: pm yesterday, yesterday evening, yesterday and.
Context around Yesterday
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 8 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yesterday
- In this selection, "yesterday" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, read, day, reported, morning, landed and afternoon stand out and add context to how "yesterday" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a day yesterday i saw, a read yesterday of 5, yesterday evening, yesterday morning and yesterday afternoon. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yesterday" sits close to words such as bought, status and article, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yesterday
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And yesterday was today yesterday. (5 words)
Man what a day yesterday i saw gladiators yesterday and it was amazing. (13 words)
The campaign train of the Labour Party (LP) yesterday landed in Kaduna yesterday. (13 words)
Government yesterday confirmed paying US$10 million to South African power utility, Eskom, to service the debt to the power utility - and the money was set to be in the receiver's bank by end of day yesterday. (38 words)
According to a statement made available to newsmen yesterday by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, the Oresident gave the assurance while receiving the President/Chief Executive Officer of Hyundai Engineering, Mr Chang Hag Kim, at State House yesterday. (37 words)
As we did yesterday, we do not have all the details, but yesterday afternoon, Anne Arundel County Police officers responded to an incident in the Woodland Beach community, involving a barricade situation on Midland Road. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
It's -- we had another read yesterday -- the economy had a read yesterday of 5% inflation.
Man what a day yesterday i saw gladiators yesterday and it was amazing.
Matur made the call yesterday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Jos, the state capital.
The campaign train of the Labour Party (LP) yesterday landed in Kaduna yesterday.
And I spoke this morning to Ayman Safadi, the foreign minister in Jordan, I spoke to Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry yesterday, and I spoke to the Palestinian prime minister yesterday also.
And yesterday was today yesterday.
As we did yesterday, we do not have all the details, but yesterday afternoon, Anne Arundel County Police officers responded to an incident in the Woodland Beach community, involving a barricade situation on Midland Road.
In an interview yesterday, one of the contractors Stanley Gwaza said the group planned to start holding the vigils yesterday to force RFA to pay for work measured.
A report yesterday by the Hong Kong Observatory stated that Saudel would move across the Luzon peninsula and enter the central part of the South China Sea over the course of yesterday and today.
As of yesterday, France had almost the same number of reported cases as did the U.S. However, France had only about half as many reported yesterday as we did.
Ireland yesterday recorded 1,283 coronavirus cases, but fatalities remain low with just three deaths recorded yesterday.
Similarly, the number of new infections has risen by a similar amount to yesterday, as today we had 439 new infections, compared to the 482 it was yesterday.
That began yesterday and I understand it's running for three days so yesterday, today and tomorrow.
That’s down in our area from yesterday when one new case was reported in Hancock County and up statewide as 21 were reported yesterday.
Yesterday morning southerners had to scrape the ice off their cars — and cows — after the coldest morning of the year for some yesterday and it's another freezing start today.
According to a statement made available to newsmen yesterday by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, the Oresident gave the assurance while receiving the President/Chief Executive Officer of Hyundai Engineering, Mr Chang Hag Kim, at State House yesterday.
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) licensing and compliance manager Casper Jangale yesterday said in principle both teams had met yesterday’s deadline to submit documents committing their participation.
Government yesterday confirmed paying US$10 million to South African power utility, Eskom, to service the debt to the power utility - and the money was set to be in the receiver's bank by end of day yesterday.
Like yesterday, I had a female in here from ten o’clock yesterday morning until about 4:30 in the afternoon to find a domestic violence shelter for her.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Permanent Secretary, Dr Moses Maurihungirire, yesterday also confirmed yesterday that the Marine Act, especially its Section 42 (2), is clear on selling quotas.
Phrases with yesterday
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with yesterday
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pm yesterday 12×
- yesterday evening 11×
- yesterday and 10×
- yesterday morning 8×
- yesterday the 8×
- and yesterday 7×
- yesterday afternoon 7×
- yesterday to 6×
- yesterday that 6×
- yesterday by 5×