Example sentences for: centuries

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

  • Three centuries on, their descendants continue to control the sherry trade.

  • The huge collection includes pre-Columbian earthenware figures, brilliant Italian Renaissance Majolica, more sedate but elegant Dutch and English Delftware of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the Rococo forms of German Meissen porcelain.

  • He notes that Chinese painters mastered verisimilitude early on--by the 10 th or 11 th century--and spent the next few centuries developing Expressionist departures from it.

  • The early vaqueros, those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were mestizos, Indians, Negroes, and mulattos.

  • After centuries of devastation by war, fire, plunder, and sheer neglect, the meticulous restoration work by the Québec provincial government has been a major act of faith in the cultural legacy of New France, reinforcing the provincial motto “Je me souviens.”


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