The baby has gone past the sell-by date given by the hospital, but there is not a lot I can do except dig in on the front-line.

What she had was a bag of chips that was only three days past the sell-by date and an unopened bowl of pretty good guacamole dip that didn't smell bad.

'Wondering if you've got enough change to buy the Mr Kipling French Fancies instead of the powo brand jam tarts past the sell-by date, are you, old man?

(also known as hanging participles) Avoid constructions such as "having died, they buried him"; the pitfalls are nicely highlighted in Mark Lawson's novel Going Out Live, in which a TV critic writes: "Dreary, repetitive and well past the sell-by date, I switched off the new series of Fleming Faces."

That is long past the expiration date for American foreign policies these days.

Did you know that a store can sell food past the expiration date?

Yet he's earned the right to drink up well past the expiration date.

You should not take them past the expiration date.

I don't check my supermarket coupons to see which are past the expiration date.

The Nets came to the land of dairy products with their effort clearly past the expiration date.

Do not use becaplermin gel past the expiration date on the tube.

In the past, that union has worked for months past the expiration date before settling on a new contract.

But to persist as "Kansas" past the expiration date so clearly marked on top of the carton?

Russia requires an exit visa if a visitor stays well past the expiration date of their visa.

Do not use the medication if it has become frozen or if it is past the expiration date on the medicine label.

"There are no data to show that a drug is still O.K. for a year past the expiration date if it is unopened," he said.

Blessing in Disguise Rico Vaseline I can't remember how long the tab of acid had been in my wallet, but I'm sure it was long past the expiration date.

The outbreak follows several threats to the food supply in the last year - the sale of milk past the expiration date, the mislabeling of imported meat and the discovery last September of cases of Mad Cow disease.

But Glorie worries that she'll be crossed by Patrick in her plans to stay semi-independent, that he might convince Louisa (usually so daring she drinks milk past the expiration date) that Glorie can't be on her own at all.

Pete insists that what they need is weapons and food, so they scrounge around in the rubble, finding a knife, a corkscrew and an ancient package of crisps with an expiration date of May 2094 (which taste bad, being so long past the expiration date).