adjective
definition
Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.
example
in days ago/in days agone
definition
Nearly gone; dead (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)
example
Woe the day- she is agone!
adverb
definition
Before
Examples of ago in a Sentence
How long ago did this happen?
This came in by currier a few minutes ago, sir.
Five years ago that day she had met Alex.
This was only a few days ago, when we all lost our magic.
I ate a while ago on my break.
Three weeks ago she would have been embarrassed by such a conversation.
Long ago, almost everyone farmed.
A few months ago she didn't know the true meaning of love.
Not more than four hours ago he was so mad at her that he could hardly speak.
She turned twenty-four two months ago and started having all these issues, like she's a vamp.
It was a long time ago.
She's a friend of mine, for I met her in the Land of Ev, not long ago, and went to Oz with her.
It's a big city and a long time ago but he saw the White House and said he watched Lincoln eat with two men.
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of our father's death, and we made a pact a few months ago to go there every year at the same time.
They lived more than two thousand years ago, and each one helped to make his country famous.
A century ago, cars were made one at a time by a half dozen people working together.
What felt good a minute ago now sounded like suicide.
Who would have guessed two years ago that he would become a happily married man?
No. It was far too long ago; before I was born.
He'd tucked away the necklace thousands of years ago after finding it among the pieces of his brother's body.
I just got the message a few minutes ago.
She is less able to recall events of fifteen years ago than most of us are to recollect our childhood.
They've all bolted long ago! said the soldier, laughing for some reason and shaking himself free.
I had such moments myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I collapsed so that I don't live at all--everything seems hateful to me... myself most of all.
More than once they had beaten him, and more than once they had made him drunk on champagne and Madeira, which he loved; and he knew more than one thing about each of them which would long ago have sent an ordinary man to Siberia.
Almost two weeks ago we called at Mr. Hutton's and had a delightful time.
Too long ago to remember.
When we first played this game two or three days ago, she showed no ingenuity at all in finding the object.
They tell us that Helen is "overdoing," that her mind is too active (these very people thought she had no mind at all a few months ago!) and suggest many absurd and impossible remedies.
There used to be houses around here long time ago.
I hired her as a housekeeper a few months ago.
The details are just now being posted but the murder occurred so long ago, I think it's outside your window.
Annie died years ago.
He died a long time ago.
I, uh, made a deal with Darkyn a few days ago for him to remove my brain tumor.
Several days ago, she would have jumped at the chance.
The Deans had married a year ago and poured their life savings into Bird Song.
Probably a five buck parking ticket he didn't pay fifty years ago and he thinks they're still trying to hunt him down.
Yeah. There's things that happened a hundred years ago and are best left be.
That was years ago!
Look at me—two months ago I ran a half-marathon and now I'm smoking!
I set up the chain of events millennia ago and knew if I could push her enough in one direction, she'd go peacefully over the edge, he said.
Assume I never knew this underworld existed before a little over a week ago.
I left many years ago and haven't gone back.
Their parents died a few years ago, she explained.
The others he hoped had died when the immortal world was destroyed months ago by the Grey God.
He lived more than seven hundred years ago in a quaint little town of Italy.
More than a hundred years ago, two boys were fishing in a small river.
It was mentioned by the Hindus more than three thousand years ago (and some suggest they even inoculated against it).
Centuries ago, North America saw a shortage of small coins, so large ones were cut into bits to circulate as small change.