DECADE in a Sentence

Learn DECADE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
142 example sentences for DECADE, such as:
1. In the past decade, the city has been reborn.
2. Great changes have taken place in the last decade.
3. Women have become more assertive in the past decade.
4. These climate shifts occurred over less than a decade.
5. This would have been considered unthinkable only a decade ago.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DECADE
decade
 n.  a period of 10 years
 n.  the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  But the bird, like many other philosophers, seemed as he looked at the reddleman to think that a present moment of comfortable reality was worth a decade of memories.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
2  It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
3  In normal cases one can place a man in his true decade with tolerable confidence.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
4  Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
6  Ellen finished and Gerald, who could never find his beads at prayer time, began furtively counting his decade on his fingers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Hastily she began her decade, telling off the beads automatically but with a depth of emotion in her voice that caused Mammy to open her eyes and shoot a searching glance at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  In a single decade the cotton output increased four-fold and the value of lands was tripled.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
9  As she finished her prayers and Suellen, then Carreen, began their decades, her mind was still speeding onward with her entrancing new thought.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  Three decades ago, Dr. Westlake, Julius Flickerbaugh the lawyer, Merriman Peedy the Congregational pastor and himself had been the arbiters.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  In rough approximation we may point out four varying decades of work in Southern education since the Civil War.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
12  First, it became almost entirely Baptist and Methodist in faith; secondly, as a social institution it antedated by many decades the monogamic Negro home.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
13  I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
14  At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XII
15  In the unholy crimson glow that bathed them, his dark profile stood out as clearly as the head on an ancient coin, beautiful, cruel and decadent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  This would have been considered unthinkable only a decade ago.
2  Women have become more assertive in the past decade.
3  The last decade has witnessed a serious rise in the levels of racism and hostility to Black and ethnic groups.
4  British Rail has indeed become more commercial over the past decade.
5  This is the toughest crime bill that Congress has passed in a decade.
6  The country has been beset by economic woes for the past decade.
7  The newspaper is believed to have been unprofitable for at least the past decade.
8  The way we work has undergone a radical transformation in the past decade.
9  This wine is from one of the two best vintages of the decade in this region.
10  Research in the field of genito-urinary medicine has led to significant health advances in the last decade.
11  There have been significant computer developments during the last decade.
12  Great changes have taken place in the last decade.
13  In the past decade, the city has been reborn.
14  During the last decade the right wing of the party has held the whip hand.
15  These climate shifts occurred over less than a decade.