Definition

Examples

• "Johns, who has been widely criticised for wasting money on the album, responded to critics yesterday, saying: "You're just jealous because you can't afford to have the Queen of England rap on one of your songs."
• "My darling wife, Sophie, gave birth to the seven-pound two-ounce cutie at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon."
• "Locals were treated to a free firework display yesterday when a lorry containing perfumes crashed near a beach and burst into flames."
• "A rare Siberian tiger named "Shoshana" escaped from her pen at the San Francisco zoo yesterday night and attacked a crowd of seven teenagers who had been insulting her, seriously injuring all seven of them. An eighth person, a six year old boy named Timothy Aldridge, was licked by the tiger, and later said the tiger's tongue felt "like sandpaper" and that her breath smelled like "muffins"."
• "My elderly mother slipped in a puddle of apple juice in the local supermarket yesterday and has injured her hip."
• "Was anybody able to solve yesterday's homework problem?"
• "Don't worry, this property is in quite a different league from the one we visited yesterday."
• "I had a nasty headache yesterday so I took a packet of aspirin."
• "What did you have for breakfast yesterday?"
• "Brazil: yesterday, 200 square miles of the Amazon Rainforest were destroyed."
• "Furthermore, Edward Moon, who was fired twice in the span of 3 hours yesterday, is not technically an employee!"
• "When the regulation was introduced in some French supermarkets yesterday, many customers left with more money than when they arrived."
• "Xavier Delavigne, a well-known figure in the Parisian quarter of Montmartre, passed away yesterday."
• "Yesterday, Shoshana and Youri took me to the National Museum of Kalackistani History."
• "Subject: Big explosion yesterday"
• "Yesterday we went on a trip to Newquay."
• "I just wanted to follow up on our conversation yesterday, and let you know that I'll be available for a telephone interview on Tuesday of next week."
• "Yesterday, during my "re-education" session, I endured cruel treatment that had but one goal: to remove the very essence of my Britishness."
• "Yesterday he set fire to a truck."
• "Despite this, CEO Kalvin Krime announced yesterday that "the worst is now over" and predicted an increase in profits next year."