Example sentences for: circa

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

  • Professor Tannen might be surprised to learn that one of the most well-known introductory books on ancient Chinese thought is called Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China . Indeed, I think most students of ancient China would agree that if there ever was a disputatious intellectual culture, it was that of China in the Warring States period (circa 479-221 B.C.).

  • The story begins in Washington, D.C., circa 1955, when a black church delegation arrives at the office of the Sen.

  • Affectionately painted servants in de Hooch's paintings, such as the housemaid in Woman and Child in an Interior (circa 1658) handing a mug of beer to an elegantly clad little boy, suggest an affinity with the lower orders of society.

  • I'd be in a meeting with my boss and suddenly I was Robin Williams circa 1980.

  • In the wonderful A Woman Drinking with Two Men and a Serving Woman (circa 1658), carousers from his drab Rotterdam pictures have entered the finely nuanced space of his Delft interiors.


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