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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:

But more important, the turn of the century should be a Golden Age for the budget.
Why is it, as etymologist Walter Skeat asked frequently in the last century, that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?
By the 17th century, Amsterdam had become arguably the richest city in the world, at the center of a huge Dutch colonial empire.
Better that than disengagement or a return to the isolationism of more than half a century ago.
There’s no doubt that the mysteries of the ancient are the lure that attracts most visitors, yet there is much to be said of modern Egypt — the archaeological sites do not sit in a geographical or cultural vacuum.Twenty-first century Egypt is a land of contrasts, but some things never change.