Example sentences for: midcentury

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

  • With its outward imagery, Gillette is trying to evoke a midcentury aesthetic of progress identified with military might, brute force, and speed.

  • Two weeks ago, art historian Simon Schama predicted in The New Yorker that Pam Gems' play about midcentury British painter Stanley Spencer, his wife, and his lover would be received--unfairly, claimed Schama--as "yet another formulaic contribution to the flourishing genre of painter-as-prick."

  • Abe's spirit has been pretty quiet since the midcentury restoration.

  • Well, by the time this photo was taken, most of these things were probably in a landfill in northern Virginia; that's where much--though not quite all--of the original White House interior went around midcentury.

  • Yesterday's NYT Magazine , another of those millennial issues, contained an annotated photo cum pensee cum fashion spread wherein actor William H. Macy "revisit[s] major milestones from midcentury America."


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