EPOCH in a Sentence
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65 example sentences for EPOCH, such as:
1. Tolls were still collected there at that epoch.
2. The glacial epoch lasted for thousands of years.
3. Einstein's theory marked a new epoch in mathematics.
4. At the epoch of her birth the Directory still existed.
5. Counterfeiting was still punishable with death at that epoch.
2. The glacial epoch lasted for thousands of years.
3. Einstein's theory marked a new epoch in mathematics.
4. At the epoch of her birth the Directory still existed.
5. Counterfeiting was still punishable with death at that epoch.
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Meanings and Examples of EPOCH
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epoch
n. (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
n. a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1 Counterfeiting was still punishable with death at that epoch.
2 The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3 Claire d'Albe and Malek-Adel were masterpieces; Madame Cottin was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch.
4 They were four Oscars; for, at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist.
5 At the epoch of her birth the Directory still existed.
6 However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
7 This seemed all the more probable since the man was religious, and even practised his religion to a certain degree, a thing which was very favorably viewed at that epoch.
8 The mystical school of Joseph de Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare that Javert was a symbol.
9 At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, and spurs the pedestrian.
10 At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, above Blucher, Germany has Schiller; above Wellington, England has Byron.
11 It must be remembered, that at that epoch the Gazette des Tribunaux was not yet in existence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
12 Tolls were still collected there at that epoch.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS C...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS C...
13 At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
14 At that epoch he had just been made, while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of Paris.
15 The gates of the Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the rest.
Example Sentence:
1 The glacial epoch lasted for thousands of years.
2 He cannot see that the power of religion, especially belief in revelation, is weaker today than it was in any other epoch in human history.
3 Einstein's theory marked a new epoch in mathematics.