Example sentences for: decades

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

  • Look at how deadbeat dads are jailed, how drug- using small-fry get put away for decades, how the 30% of Americans who continue to smoke are gradually being made liable for the entire federal budget.

  • I have not heard suit pronounced that way for decades.

  • The most prevalent use of Trojan horse today is its cyberuse, now two decades old, where it refers to hard-to-detect instructions secretly embedded in computer software, making possible various kinds of unauthorized or unintended outcomes ranging from theft to breach of security to self-destruction.

  • Yet, the close bond of religious zeal and American politics returns in the Awakening in the early decades of the nineteenth century, a period leading not only to the abolitionist movement but also to the expression of religious passion in foreign policy, particularly in westward expansion under the ideology of manifest destiny.

  • In Andersen's case, it took decades for Andersen to climb to the top and less than two years for it to decline into extinction.


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