century Beispiele

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Examples of century in a Sentence

Beispiele century
1. In the fourth century the arch-heretic Priscillian was Bishop of Avila,
2. This century-old Edward Steichen autochrome, probably of Charlotte Spaulding, has been discovered after decades in storage.
3. The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
4. The most famous Boeotarchs were Epaminondas and Pelopidas, who led Thebes to hegemonic status over Greece in the middle of the 4th century BC.
5. Environmental pollution and the overconsumption of nonreplenishable resources is the boiling frog syndrome of the 21st century.
6. > Well, to *you* I yield precedence, but the rest of these whippersnappers > ought to bow to my half-century. And I've been a Buffista from Day One.
7. Late 14th century: ‘Herkne, my broþer, herkne, by þy feiþ! / Herestow nat how þat þe cartere seiþ? / Hent it anon, for he haþ yeve it þee,/ Boþe hey and cart, and eek his caples þre.’ — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale
Beispiele centuries
1. Mr. Goebbels’s typically voracious settings represent, as one performer said in a preconcert discussion, “the accretions of centuries.”
2. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. — Earle.
3. Rosenblum's semiserious survey of dogs in art illustrates major cultural and social changes over the centuries.
4. During the last two centuries men appear to have striven, with a most uncommendable zeal, all over Christendom, to root out and extirpate every trace of the Gothic.
5. This poetry speaks across the centuries. ‎
6. In later centuries, the masses of European immigrants making footfall in New York’s streets saw the turbid, jostling, unprecedented mix of peoples, all striving to get ahead, and called the jitteringly new phenomenon “American.”
7. Further affiant sayeth naught. (A centuries-old statement that is still used on some legal documents as the final declaration prior to the affiant's signature.)

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