Example sentences for: centuries

How can you use “centuries” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For centuries this was a farming village, separated from the city by the green expanse of Corstorphine Hill.

  • Little has changed here in decades, if not centuries.

  • Begun in 1368, it was the main royal lodging for centuries until it was battered and left a wreck during the “Lang Siege” of 1571–73.

  • This did not, however, save the Call from being burned and looted as persecution mounted in the 14th and 15th centuries.

  • The coinages and cadences of the Tyndale Bible--"eat, drink, and be merry"; "a fool's paradise"; "fight the good fight"; "suffer the children"; "the salt of the earth"; "in his right mind"; "the powers that be"--and of the King James Version have for three centuries served both as psychic libretto and as percussion section for English speakers everywhere.


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