Example sentences for: century--

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

  • While Franklin Roosevelt was "tragically unwary of the new global menace from the left," Churchill spearheaded the opposition to the "twin scourges" of the century--Nazism and communism.

  • And the idea that government is [not responsible for] the social engineering that we find--which was by Hitler, by Stalin, on a smaller level is by Franklin Roosevelt and the other leaders of the century--[is preposterous].

  • In his book, Jacoby deplores what he characterizes as a sort of fall, from the Edenic condition of what he calls "classical American intellectuals" born at the turn of the century--Lewis Mumford, Dwight Macdonald, and, inevitably, Edmund Wilson--to the generation born after World War II, whose intellectuals, he claims, have all retreated into academia, where they have lost themselves in a thicket of specialized professional jargon.

  • Sample joke: "Topping the list of top 20 shortest books of the century-- Al Gore: The Wild Years .")

  • A pear-shaped tea caddy from the eighteenth century--$4,000!


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