How to use "ago" in a sentence

My right hand died long ago

"It looks like a city from thousands of years ago."

I heard that she went to Chicago, but that was five years ago.'

'Jenny married two years ago;

We came here about three years ago.'

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago

Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether."

For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

They let me out four days ago

I should have given it away a long time ago.'

I was angry with you six weeks ago when you told me to release that woman

He was a prisoner I saw twenty years ago, when I worked at a prison in Toulon

If he's found guilty of stealing from the bishop - who, as you know, died a couple of years ago - and of robbing the small boy, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.'

My warm-hearted neighbour, I have heard of how you kindly paid my rent for me six months ago

'Do you remember the little inn in Montfermeil eight years ago? You took away our Cosette, do you remember? Wearing that old yellow coat, pretending you were a tramp! Well, now you're going to learn that you can't make things right by just bringing a few hospital blankets! You're the cause of all my troubles

It's a long time ago, but do you remember the day when you first looked at me - in the Luxembourg Gardens? And the day you walked past me? Those things happened nearly a year ago

He then turned slowly to the old man, bowed deeply and said, 'Four years ago you insulted my father

He could not believe that this was the same man he had seen at the barricade all those months ago - it seemed like a bad dream to him.

And he remembers something horrible from more than a year ago: an accident on the roads across the moors

He thinks about home for a moment, but that is too far away now, and too long ago.

How long ago was his last visit to this cold stone building? More than twenty years? Well, that is not important at the moment

I believe Father O'Connor passed away nearly ten years ago."

That was two days ago."

I stole it more than eight years ago, from a bank security van

One year ago, on March 15, 2087, she'd been standing in Space 29 in one of her favorite illusions

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

Years ago, before the Oil Wars," said Gran

"Oh, yes, don't mind me." But Gran was rubbing her back, where she'd been injured years ago

Yes, I have been here before, many years ago.'

'A little while ago, you said you wanted to keep your memories

Something happened a year ago that changed my whole life

If you had not been here, I would have left long ago

'He was by that rock a minute ago,' said Maxim.

'I went into that cottage in the bay a few days ago,' I said

I met him once, years ago.'

He went across the lawn only a few minutes ago.'

Dr Baker used to live there, but he left six months ago

But then, a few weeks ago, she had begun to slip back into the dreadful condition in which she'd wallowed immediately after she'd received news of the accident

Five years ago, however, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she began to realize that she had, if she was lucky, ten years left as a show dancer, and she decided to establish herself in the business in another capacity, to avoid being washed up at thirty-eight

Almost a year ago, shortly after Danny had died, Tina had been offered a directing and co-producing job on a huge ten-million-dollar extravaganza to be staged in the two-thousand-seat main showroom of the Golden Pyramid, one of the largest and plushest hotels on the Strip

A month ago, for the first time, she'd thought that at last she had begun to overcome her grief

That's what she had thought a month ago

What if they came, lights flashing and sirens screaming - and found no one? If she had summoned the police every time that she imagined hearing a prowler in the house during the past two weeks, they would have decided long ago that she was scramble-brained

Although the funeral had been more than a year ago, she had not yet been able to dispose of Danny's belongings

It was so huge that a DC-9 airliner could be rolled onto it without using half the space available - a feat that had been accomplished as part of a production number on a similar stage at a hotel in Reno several years ago

Carol Hirson, a cocktail waitress who was a friend of Tina's, had told her about the unlucky Texans a few minutes ago

Besides, the house hadn't shuddered just a minute ago; only the photos had been affected.

No woman had affected him so strongly since Nancy, his wife, who had died three years ago.

When I saw you walk into the casino a while ago, I knew I was right

Once, long ago, she had loved him very much

She turned away from him and started toward the rear entrance of the hotel, out of which they'd come a few minutes ago.

She thought of the man in her nightmare, the man in black whose face had been lumpy with maggots, and the shadows in the corner of her office seemed darker and deeper than they had been a moment ago.

She asked the computer for the same information that Angela had requested a while ago

Just a couple of hours ago she had concluded that the person behind this harassment had to be a stranger

Nevertheless, the room was much cooler than it had been only minutes ago.

She intended to determine if the words about Danny had been previously programmed to print out on her machine or if they had been sent to her just seconds ago by someone at another computer in another office in the hotel's elaborately networked series of workstations.

When we finished our work a couple minutes ago, I came up to see if you were here

"Helen Mainway told me he died a little over a year ago."

A year ago, Jaborski's excursion had included fourteen boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen

But it wasn't any recollection of your son that had you so upset when I walked in a little while ago."

She felt more relaxed than she'd been ten minutes ago, but she wasn't even slightly tipsy

But a month ago I started dreaming about Danny again

"The body's in an airtight casket, but it'll be even more deteriorated now than it was a year ago when they recommended you not look at it."

"Five years ago

She recalled the hatred in Michael's face when she'd left him a few hours ago

All the talk about death and fear and madness and pain seemed to have taken place further back in the past than a mere few seconds ago

"She passed away three years ago."

Owen West and I opened for business in a cheap storefront office twelve years ago, right at the start of the biggest boom this town has ever seen

"You already put it in a minute ago."

In one smooth lightning-fast movement, Elliot seized the measuring cup into which he had poured four ounces of vinegar a few minutes ago, and he threw the contents in Vince's face

She had given it to him two nights ago, at the party after the premiere of Magyck! She didn't live far from him

It had been published only two years ago, long after she had decided that horror comics were harmless.

But she hadn't read the story until a few minutes ago

"A few minutes ago

Elliot had the awful feeling that this guy would reach for the button Tina had pushed less than a minute ago, and that the garage door would lift just as the black van was rolling slowly by in the street.

After he retired about ten years ago, he was still a young man, fifty-three, and he needed something else to occupy his time

"Remember maybe ten years ago when that Texas elections official revealed how Lyndon Johnson's first local election was fixed? The guy said he was just trying to clear his conscience after all those years

Only a moment ago, she had envied these people for the very ordinariness of their lives

She had the same feeling of being watched that she'd had in the parking lot a short while ago.

One day, about two years ago, I was in the kitchen, making an apple pie, and Danny came in to tell me Elmer wasn't anywhere to be found in the yard

"If fear and stress could increase the power of his psychic gifts, why didn't he start trying to get in touch with you months ago?"

A group had gone down a while ago and would be returning for their last stand at the tables before a whole new staff came on duty with the shift change

But when Bruckster had come into the hotel thirty minutes ago, Evans had been chatting with the players at his blackjack table, cracking jokes, and grinning as if nothing of any importance had happened in his life lately.

"That was a long time ago," Alexander said impatiently

But a long time ago you were Stryker's mentor, the man he respected, the man he learned from, and now you've betrayed him

"Stryker and the woman took off from McCarran International more than two hours ago

"When this started a month ago, it wasn't that bad

They aren't the same as they were when he first came in here a year ago."

The raw, damp wind was stronger now than it had been a short while ago, when they'd landed at the airport

George, on the other hand, hadn't filled a post of genuine stature and authority until six years ago, when he was thirty-six

Then, six years ago, the Network had been formed, and the President had given George the task of developing a reliable South American bureau of the new intelligence agency

This was his second pill since he'd gotten out of bed just three and a half hours ago, but he still felt edgy.

She and Elliot had turned off Interstate 80 a quarter of an hour ago, following the route Danny had marked, circling the edge of the wilderness

Carlton Dombey, who had come on duty twenty minutes ago, sat at one of the tables against the north wall

"The spot that showed up on the boy's parietal lobe about six weeks ago."

It appeared after his first series of shots six weeks ago

And although Stryker had done some heavy military service, that had been ages ago

It opened onto a junction of two hallways, which Tina had discovered a few minutes ago, just after Elliot had shot the guard, when she had peeked through the door to see if reinforcements were on the way.

Minutes ago, when Tina had first peered through the observation window, when she had seen the frighteningly thin child, she had told herself that she would not cry

Alexander was increasingly confident that they would reach the installation unscathed, and he was aware that even Kurt Hensen, who hated flying with Morgan, was calmer now than he had been ten minutes ago.

got out of the chemical and biological weapons race a long time ago."

Almost thirteen months ago, when Danny and the other boys in his troop were on their winter survival outing, one of our scientists, a quirky son of a bitch named Larry Bollinger, accidentally contaminated himself while he was working alone one morning in this lab."

I wish I'd had enough guts to do it a long time ago."

I long ago wore out the three pairs of shoes that I was able to buy with my after-expenses and after-tax income from the project which, had it come to fruition, might have been titled I Think There's a Rat Chewing My Foot in Dean Koontz's Theater

'I think that fly must have died long ago, Henri,' I said, getting up and walking to the door.

Andre, poor Andre, had gone long ago, it seemed

'He came a few minutes ago

I heard about it ten minutes ago, at five to seven

'About three weeks ago

'About a year ago

'I met him at a dinner not long ago and we had a most interesting talk

But that was twenty years ago

The attack came six years ago

The church! We rebuilt it only three years ago

Germs, which cause so much disease and pain on Earth, have either never appeared on Mars or they got rid of them a long time ago.

Seven months ago, when these planets were close together, faint, dark marks appeared on photographs which suggested that a cylinder had been fired from one to the other.

Well, about six weeks ago she came and asked me for some.

'Almost two months ago.'

Are those shoes the old pair which were new a couple of months ago? Or are they the newest pair? And here she is herself, the pretty one

I was surprised to see you - the road was empty just a moment ago.'

I arrived here a few days ago

He tells me that he left Italy a long time ago, for political reasons.

I realised that she was listening at the door a moment ago.

Twenty-three years ago, Sir P admired me

I also knew that the Count had left Italy many years ago

You told me long ago that you couldn't explain them to me, but this is an emergency