Example sentences for: centuries

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

  • The Moors chose Córdoba as their seat of government, and from the 8th to the very early 11th centuries, it ranked as one of the great cities of the world.

  • You will also find displays of diving equipment used over the centuries to explore the shipwrecks that can be found all around the treacherous reefs off the coast here.

  • Translators of the King James Bible had the same task as did the Greek translators centuries before: to make this ancient text accessible to the readers of their day.

  • Immediately behind here is the sprawling Alcazaba fortress/palace complex that the Moors built between the 11th and 14th centuries.

  • Stuttering, with its characteristic disruption in verbal fluency, has been known for centuries; earliest descriptions probably date back to the Biblical Moses' “slowness of speech and tongue” and his related avoidance behavior (Exodus 4, 10–13).


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