Example sentences for: decades

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

  • It was the first year without an air travel fatality in three decades.

  • They are still considered some of the best sites in the world, despite the explosion in the number of divers over the last two decades.

  • The report notes that the school's tenure rate for women has stagnated at 8 percent for two decades (the national average is 26 percent) and that women faculty were required to raise twice as much money in outside grants as men.

  • Stirred by her anger, Conley eventually began to face facts about Gerry that she had suppressed over two decades in order to concentrate on work.

  • Up-and-coming challenger to undisputed champion to complete basket case in the span of two decades: The saga of the Japanese economy looks more and more like a late-1940s boxing melodrama--though one imagines that if this were Hollywood, the producers would demand that Japan ultimately get up off the canvas and retake the title.


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