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Definition of yesterday in English: yesterdayadverbˈjɛstədiˈjɛstədeɪ 1On the day before today. he returned to a hero's welcome yesterday Example sentencesExamples - There was an upswing of violence again today, yesterday, and the day before.
- There is many western places in this town so I had some porridge yesterday and some muesli today which is really helping things.
- Still, things have been far smoother here today than they were yesterday.
- Fatal crash investigators combed the scene yesterday and would return today to continue their investigations.
- I am doing a research paper on Women's voting rights; yesterday and today.
- Well, I think I'm considerably less grumpy and irritable today than yesterday.
- Our trip over the Pennines went very well yesterday, good job we did it yesterday as today the M62 is blocked due to an accident.
- His reaction is the same today as it was yesterday, that he wants to get to the bottom of this.
- I actually listened to Thought for the Day on Today yesterday.
- I think it was today or yesterday President Chirac essentially backed that up.
- And they came to the House yesterday and today with the recommendation that was passed.
- Speaking of stats: do you think they tell you how many people visited your beloved blog today, yesterday, last week, last month?
- Mr Dillon did not return calls to The Guardian yesterday or today.
- I was welcome yesterday, but today I feel like the three of you are hiding something from me.
- The ceremonies were taking place over two days at York Minster, yesterday and today, and saw students graduate in a variety of subjects.
- Having had to offer congratulations to one celeb couple yesterday, today The Sun is back on form, stirring up a spot of trouble.
- I'll ask him questions about what we did today, yesterday, and about the adventures that we've had in the past.
- The crew of a nuclear submarine was given a hero's welcome yesterday as it arrived home from the Gulf.
- Detectives arrested the boy in Bradford yesterday and he was today being held at Lawcroft House police station awaiting interview.
- However, one of his lawyers said yesterday that today's court date will still have to be honoured since it was ordered.
- 1.1 In the recent past.
everything seems to have been built yesterday Example sentencesExamples - This is a problem that has always bugged parents, even since I was in school, which is not today or yesterday.
- She remembered those days as if they were yesterdays.
- Back in the days these people refer to, players kicked balls of stone-like leather, and were injected with so many drugs to numb injuries that half of yesterdays stars can't walk today.
- Even in attitudes, fashion and food the two groups were as distinct as today's news and yesterday's cover story.
- The prints are all crisp and clear - Out of the Past looks like it could have been shot yesterday.
- Time cruelly accelerates and yesterday's icon is today's TV history.
nounˈjɛstədiˈjɛstədeɪ 1The day before today. Example sentencesExamples - My official photographer so far has released only this picture from yesterday's music fest.
- After yesterday, this is probably the nicest day we've had thus far this year.
- On a day like today… after yesterday, I tend to reflect, internalize, and re-address the balance.
- I raise a difficulty that we have from yesterday concerning today's answers.
- My rest day from yesterday ended today, finally, at about eight o'clock in the evening.
- Air France scrubbed the same flight set for yesterday and today from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to Dulles.
- We did release a statement early on and then a few days later we began to talk about it, starting with yesterday and today.
- Today's announcement follows yesterday's suspension of the outfit's shares.
- I think I can put at least some of my decision on comments below down to the fact I was coming down ill with something and have had to spend yesterday and today at home.
- Between yesterday and today I have been completing my preparations for departure on Tuesday.
- My work computer went wonky now and I lost most of yesterday and today to trying to get my environment working again.
- And I guess just looking at today and yesterday, what do you think of the overall process?
- In the insonmiac flux I live in, I seem to have finally conquered time: today is yesterday is tomorrow.
- The third one outdid them all by going out with his car into a riot ridden area (there was rioting in most of Karachi today due to yesterday's events).
- October 26 1999 I missed the previous day's filming so today I sit and watch yesterday's rushes.
- Staff at the estate agents spent today and yesterday contacting owners, but there are still a number of people they have been unable to speak to.
- The flood watch included Elvington Beck, where the water had visibly risen today since yesterday, and Stamford Bridge.
- The day before yesterday and today, and both on the final climb to the finish.
- In yesterday's hearing, a senior FBI official and another senior CIA analyst agreed.
- I slept for most of yesterday and today, cos am utterly exhausted.
Synonyms out of fashion, out of date, outdated, old-fashioned, outmoded, out of style, dated, behind the times, last year's, yesterday's, unpopular, unstylish, superseded, archaic, obsolete, antiquated - 1.1 The recent past.
Example sentencesExamples - The surreal, anarchic and monstrous extremes of yesterday are not so sensational anymore.
- I've always had the view that you remember yesterday, work for today, but also work towards tomorrow.
- Yet it is the yesterdays that have made today possible.
- It's our sincere hope that you continue believing in today's gain from yesterday's effort.
- When I go home it is all going to be history and I don't want to be living in yesterdays.
- Tom Hawthorn is a Victoria sports reporter more interested in yesterday's stories than today's scores.
- The students of yesterday are today's alumni and an alumni-school connection also benefits the school.
- You do all that and then you are yesterday's story, yesterday's people.
- It seemed like yesterday that we were bitter rivals, so recent since we wanted to kill each other.
- Because we've been there before, we've endured yesterday's men and yesterday's ethics.
Synonyms the past, former times, historical events, days of old, the old days, the good old days, time gone by, bygone days, antiquity
Phrases yesterday morning (or afternoon etc.) In the morning (or afternoon etc.) of yesterday. my wife had a baby boy yesterday morning Example sentencesExamples - They had arrived yesterday morning and they claimed to be taking an afternoon walk.
- I wrote the above yesterday morning as I stared at the computer screen not sure where to start at all.
- Wardship proceedings in the case of the twins were issued yesterday morning in the family division of the High Court.
- But in the early hours of yesterday morning, the penny dropped in Murray's mind.
- Early yesterday morning there was an insurgent attack to the north of our base camp.
- When Jose Mourinho looked out his bedroom window yesterday morning, he would have liked what he saw.
- I got in yesterday morning full of enthusiasm for re-arranging my bedroom.
- The teenager taken to hospital yesterday morning was released by the afternoon.
- I was at my desk before nine yesterday morning and left it just after nine - twelve and a bit hours later.
- He woke me up yesterday morning with gentle purring as he padded across my duvet, then rolled on his back to have his tummy tickled.
A man, especially a politician, whose career is finished or past its peak. he was no sooner elected leader than the media dismissed him as yesterday's man Example sentencesExamples - Burchill, who is paid to follow these things, must have known that Waltz was yesterday's man, yet he didn't hesitate to cite the single, superceded quote that suited his purposes.
- He looks fresh and new, while Hidding looks like yesterday's man.
- There's a touch of yesterday's man about Terry.
- With so many doors shutting, Reed felt he was yesterday's man - though there were always, and still are, conflicting views, especially among his friends.
- Though popular with the German populace, his tenure had yet to assume an air of permanence, the idea lingering that one slip and he might become yesterday's man.
- I wasn't yesterday's man, I was the day before yesterday's man.
- So Lord Heseltine may simply be providing further evidence that he's yesterday's man when he drones on about the ‘centre ground’ being where elections are won.
- Even if Labour wins a sizable majority, Blair's time is over as the ground shifts fast beneath his feet; he is yesterday's man.
- Off the record, some Liberal backbenchers see the Prime Minister as yesterday's man and think it's time to instal a leader with a future, as opposed to a past, someone with a more contemporary view of the world.
- The result will be a surprise to professional politicians and pundits, who tend to regard Mr Clarke as yesterday's man and Mr Portillo as the likeliest candidate to replace William Hague.
A person or thing that is no longer of interest. Harry is yesterday's news, diving down the ratings Example sentencesExamples - Finally, while MPs with blogs are yesterday's news, grandad, it's nice to see one who's now in the public eye sticking his neck out - first raise that tricky allegation in the House, then write about it in your blog.
- That was yesterday's news… in a sense, though, it was all rather nostalgic…
- We know that we will be winning Mrs. Parks' war, our war, when it's yesterday's news that a newly elected governor or senator or president is a woman or a person of color.
- BSE is not yesterday's news and anyone who relies on governments to guarantee the safety of what they eat simply hasn't been paying attention…
- I thought Latham was amazingly controlled in the face of a series of totally fatuous questions that raked over stuff that was already well and truly yesterday's news (everywhere else, it seems, but the ABC).
- So Gary Condit at this point is keeping it alive, or this story alive in the news media, but as far as the professional investigators go, Gary Condit is yesterday's news.
- Goodbye Courtney, you're yesterday's news, the new freak of the week is Andy Dick.
- It was fashionable a short while ago to proclaim we had entered an age where the old cultural certainties had been thrown into disarray; it has become just as fashionable now to dismiss the postmodern as yesterday's news.
- Now we hear that he has been charged with adultery and having pornographic material in his possession; the espionage accusations are apparently yesterday's news.
- Mergers and acquisitions are yesterday's news.
Origin Old English giestran dæg (see yester-, day). Definition of yesterday in US English: yesterdayadverb 1On the day before today. he returned to a hero's welcome yesterday Example sentencesExamples - However, one of his lawyers said yesterday that today's court date will still have to be honoured since it was ordered.
- I think it was today or yesterday President Chirac essentially backed that up.
- Well, I think I'm considerably less grumpy and irritable today than yesterday.
- Still, things have been far smoother here today than they were yesterday.
- There is many western places in this town so I had some porridge yesterday and some muesli today which is really helping things.
- The crew of a nuclear submarine was given a hero's welcome yesterday as it arrived home from the Gulf.
- I'll ask him questions about what we did today, yesterday, and about the adventures that we've had in the past.
- I actually listened to Thought for the Day on Today yesterday.
- The ceremonies were taking place over two days at York Minster, yesterday and today, and saw students graduate in a variety of subjects.
- Speaking of stats: do you think they tell you how many people visited your beloved blog today, yesterday, last week, last month?
- Mr Dillon did not return calls to The Guardian yesterday or today.
- And they came to the House yesterday and today with the recommendation that was passed.
- Our trip over the Pennines went very well yesterday, good job we did it yesterday as today the M62 is blocked due to an accident.
- His reaction is the same today as it was yesterday, that he wants to get to the bottom of this.
- I was welcome yesterday, but today I feel like the three of you are hiding something from me.
- Having had to offer congratulations to one celeb couple yesterday, today The Sun is back on form, stirring up a spot of trouble.
- Detectives arrested the boy in Bradford yesterday and he was today being held at Lawcroft House police station awaiting interview.
- Fatal crash investigators combed the scene yesterday and would return today to continue their investigations.
- There was an upswing of violence again today, yesterday, and the day before.
- I am doing a research paper on Women's voting rights; yesterday and today.
- 1.1 In the recent past.
everything seems to have been built yesterday Example sentencesExamples - Back in the days these people refer to, players kicked balls of stone-like leather, and were injected with so many drugs to numb injuries that half of yesterdays stars can't walk today.
- The prints are all crisp and clear - Out of the Past looks like it could have been shot yesterday.
- Even in attitudes, fashion and food the two groups were as distinct as today's news and yesterday's cover story.
- This is a problem that has always bugged parents, even since I was in school, which is not today or yesterday.
- Time cruelly accelerates and yesterday's icon is today's TV history.
- She remembered those days as if they were yesterdays.
noun 1The day before today. Example sentencesExamples - After yesterday, this is probably the nicest day we've had thus far this year.
- I raise a difficulty that we have from yesterday concerning today's answers.
- The flood watch included Elvington Beck, where the water had visibly risen today since yesterday, and Stamford Bridge.
- I think I can put at least some of my decision on comments below down to the fact I was coming down ill with something and have had to spend yesterday and today at home.
- Staff at the estate agents spent today and yesterday contacting owners, but there are still a number of people they have been unable to speak to.
- October 26 1999 I missed the previous day's filming so today I sit and watch yesterday's rushes.
- In the insonmiac flux I live in, I seem to have finally conquered time: today is yesterday is tomorrow.
- Today's announcement follows yesterday's suspension of the outfit's shares.
- My official photographer so far has released only this picture from yesterday's music fest.
- And I guess just looking at today and yesterday, what do you think of the overall process?
- We did release a statement early on and then a few days later we began to talk about it, starting with yesterday and today.
- The third one outdid them all by going out with his car into a riot ridden area (there was rioting in most of Karachi today due to yesterday's events).
- My rest day from yesterday ended today, finally, at about eight o'clock in the evening.
- Air France scrubbed the same flight set for yesterday and today from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to Dulles.
- My work computer went wonky now and I lost most of yesterday and today to trying to get my environment working again.
- On a day like today… after yesterday, I tend to reflect, internalize, and re-address the balance.
- The day before yesterday and today, and both on the final climb to the finish.
- Between yesterday and today I have been completing my preparations for departure on Tuesday.
- In yesterday's hearing, a senior FBI official and another senior CIA analyst agreed.
- I slept for most of yesterday and today, cos am utterly exhausted.
Synonyms out of fashion, out of date, outdated, old-fashioned, outmoded, out of style, dated, behind the times, last year's, yesterday's, unpopular, unstylish, superseded, archaic, obsolete, antiquated - 1.1 The recent past.
Example sentencesExamples - It seemed like yesterday that we were bitter rivals, so recent since we wanted to kill each other.
- Tom Hawthorn is a Victoria sports reporter more interested in yesterday's stories than today's scores.
- When I go home it is all going to be history and I don't want to be living in yesterdays.
- I've always had the view that you remember yesterday, work for today, but also work towards tomorrow.
- Because we've been there before, we've endured yesterday's men and yesterday's ethics.
- The students of yesterday are today's alumni and an alumni-school connection also benefits the school.
- It's our sincere hope that you continue believing in today's gain from yesterday's effort.
- Yet it is the yesterdays that have made today possible.
- You do all that and then you are yesterday's story, yesterday's people.
- The surreal, anarchic and monstrous extremes of yesterday are not so sensational anymore.
Synonyms the past, former times, historical events, days of old, the old days, the good old days, time gone by, bygone days, antiquity
Phrases yesterday morning (or afternoon etc.) In the morning (or afternoon etc.) of yesterday. Example sentencesExamples - Wardship proceedings in the case of the twins were issued yesterday morning in the family division of the High Court.
- The teenager taken to hospital yesterday morning was released by the afternoon.
- He woke me up yesterday morning with gentle purring as he padded across my duvet, then rolled on his back to have his tummy tickled.
- But in the early hours of yesterday morning, the penny dropped in Murray's mind.
- I got in yesterday morning full of enthusiasm for re-arranging my bedroom.
- They had arrived yesterday morning and they claimed to be taking an afternoon walk.
- I wrote the above yesterday morning as I stared at the computer screen not sure where to start at all.
- When Jose Mourinho looked out his bedroom window yesterday morning, he would have liked what he saw.
- Early yesterday morning there was an insurgent attack to the north of our base camp.
- I was at my desk before nine yesterday morning and left it just after nine - twelve and a bit hours later.
A man, especially a politician, whose career is finished or past its peak. Example sentencesExamples - With so many doors shutting, Reed felt he was yesterday's man - though there were always, and still are, conflicting views, especially among his friends.
- He looks fresh and new, while Hidding looks like yesterday's man.
- Burchill, who is paid to follow these things, must have known that Waltz was yesterday's man, yet he didn't hesitate to cite the single, superceded quote that suited his purposes.
- The result will be a surprise to professional politicians and pundits, who tend to regard Mr Clarke as yesterday's man and Mr Portillo as the likeliest candidate to replace William Hague.
- So Lord Heseltine may simply be providing further evidence that he's yesterday's man when he drones on about the ‘centre ground’ being where elections are won.
- Off the record, some Liberal backbenchers see the Prime Minister as yesterday's man and think it's time to instal a leader with a future, as opposed to a past, someone with a more contemporary view of the world.
- There's a touch of yesterday's man about Terry.
- Though popular with the German populace, his tenure had yet to assume an air of permanence, the idea lingering that one slip and he might become yesterday's man.
- Even if Labour wins a sizable majority, Blair's time is over as the ground shifts fast beneath his feet; he is yesterday's man.
- I wasn't yesterday's man, I was the day before yesterday's man.
A person or thing that is no longer of interest. Example sentencesExamples - So Gary Condit at this point is keeping it alive, or this story alive in the news media, but as far as the professional investigators go, Gary Condit is yesterday's news.
- Mergers and acquisitions are yesterday's news.
- I thought Latham was amazingly controlled in the face of a series of totally fatuous questions that raked over stuff that was already well and truly yesterday's news (everywhere else, it seems, but the ABC).
- Finally, while MPs with blogs are yesterday's news, grandad, it's nice to see one who's now in the public eye sticking his neck out - first raise that tricky allegation in the House, then write about it in your blog.
- We know that we will be winning Mrs. Parks' war, our war, when it's yesterday's news that a newly elected governor or senator or president is a woman or a person of color.
- BSE is not yesterday's news and anyone who relies on governments to guarantee the safety of what they eat simply hasn't been paying attention…
- That was yesterday's news… in a sense, though, it was all rather nostalgic…
- It was fashionable a short while ago to proclaim we had entered an age where the old cultural certainties had been thrown into disarray; it has become just as fashionable now to dismiss the postmodern as yesterday's news.
- Now we hear that he has been charged with adultery and having pornographic material in his possession; the espionage accusations are apparently yesterday's news.
- Goodbye Courtney, you're yesterday's news, the new freak of the week is Andy Dick.
Origin Old English giestran dæg (see yester-, day). |