CENTURY in a Sentence
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287 example sentences for CENTURY, such as:
1. Such was this quarter in the last century.
2. The palace was built in the fifteenth century.
3. Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century.
4. The city won its liberty in the sixteenth century.
5. In the nineteenth century, pirates roamed the seas.
2. The palace was built in the fifteenth century.
3. Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century.
4. The city won its liberty in the sixteenth century.
5. In the nineteenth century, pirates roamed the seas.
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Meanings and Examples of CENTURY
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century
n. a period of 100 years
Classic Sentence: (170 in 12 pages)
1 It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas of the century" on certain delicate points.
2 Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but short-sightedness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
3 There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
4 The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else having fallen prostrate around it.
5 Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried off by a large ball.
6 Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the nineteenth century.
7 Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century.
8 The disappearance of the great man was necessary to the advent of the great century.
9 A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance.
10 The aggrandizement which they have brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source.
11 The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued its march.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
12 One of the most undisputed forms of the health of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and over the continent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
13 In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots.
14 Such was this quarter in the last century.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
15 At the beginning of this century Ecouen was one of those strict and graceful places where young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august.
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1 A century ago, eastern Germany was an agricultural hinterland.
2 The town hall is the only edifice surviving from the fifteenth century.
3 The following quotation is taken from a nineteenth century travel diary.
4 In the mid-nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix began to campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
5 I deserted for half a century did not wait for my followers.
6 The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.
7 Indeed, it could be the worst environmental disaster in Western Europe this century.
8 His ideas enjoyed wide currency during the last century.
9 Looking still further ahead, by the end of the next century world population is expected to be about ten billion.
10 By the close of this century another two billion people will have been born.
11 The first British attempt to colonize Ireland was in the twelfth century.
12 The city won its liberty in the sixteenth century.
13 She collects paintings by nineteenth - century Australian artists.
14 In the nineteenth century, pirates roamed the seas.
15 The palace was built in the fifteenth century.