Example sentences for: centuries-old

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

  • With the closing of the centuries-old Zhengyici Theater (an opera venue since 1713), the best place to take in an evening of exotic opera Beijing-style is the Liyuan Theater in the Qianmen Hotel (175 Yong’an Lu).

  • He set an ambitious 15-month timetable for solving the centuries-old Arab-Israeli conflict and back-burnered domestic issues to keep on schedule.

  • The original architecture was Andalusian filtered through the tastes and customs of Mexico (then called New Spain) and further modified by the materials available and the centuries-old experience of the Pueblo Indians.

  • Not inexpensive, but then the bargain here is not in the price, it’s in the tradition of a centuries-old craft of meticulous workmanship.

  • Isolationist pundits give the impression that the world outside the United States is a boiling cauldron of centuries-old ethnic rivalries, in which mass slaughters are everyday occurrences.


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