Example sentences for: generations

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

  • He also inspired generations of photographers--especially such 1930s masters of documentation as Berenice Abbott and Walker Evans--with the idea that there was something peculiarly American about the pitiless gaze of the camera.

  • Along the way, he produced a staggering number of images that have remained lodged in media memory and adorned generations of dorm-room walls: Dovima and the elephants, Nastassja Kinski and the snake, Simon and Garfunkel as Gertrude and Alice (on the cover of their breakthrough album Bookends ), Barbra Streisand chewing on a daffodil, and Joan Baez blowin' in the wind.

  • For instance, adrenalin is also the common term in AE (not epinephrine ), though the latter is known; BE bath can be tub in AE but is usually bathtub ; an AE cookie is a BE sweet biscuit , but biscuit is a common alternative term in AE for a dry cracker (Remember Uneeda Biscuits ? They are crackers.); Americans bring up their children, as the British do, but they also raise or rear them; AE has both curtains and drapes , but they are different things: BE uses curtains for what AE speakers call drapes ; AE has both deck chair and beach chair , not, as implied, the latter instead of the former; likewise, AE has dressing gown as well as robe and bathrobe , but a dressing gown is more likely to be somewhat fancier; Americans know many games of solitaire , of which patience is just one; both crayfish and crawfish are used in AE, and it is about time that the old (British) fiction that Americans say railroad for what the British call a railway was put to rest: for at least two generations, one of the biggest companies in the US was called Railway Express .

  • But Safire knew better than to fight the tides of history and included the word in his political dictionary, lest that weighty tome prove useless to future generations.

  • Many areas enjoy protected status to save them for future generations to enjoy.


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