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Example sentences for: century

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

However not only the South, but the whole country was caught up in religious revivalism during the early decades of the century.
The first Renaissance building in the Algarve, it was constructed in the 16th century on the site of the old Jewish quarter (Faro had a sizeable Jewish population in the Middle Ages).
It is thought that the Black Legend is actually the basis for the discriminatory treatment of Mexicans by Anglo Americans during the conquest of the frontier in the 1800s, and even for the current treatment of Chicanos in the United States in the twentieth century.
The LAT for instance, tells its readers that, "awash in fireworks and fired-up patriotism, China celebrates the end of 156 years of 'national disgrace,' regaining a tiny patch of land ceded after a humiliating war and eyed enviously for a century," while the NYT can't keep to itself about the police band members at the ceremonies in their "snow white tunics" and the attendance there "of representatives of each of the territory's services, from the Correctional Services Department to the Auxiliary Medical Service."
96, a nine-tiered temple from the seventh century.