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Example sentences for: milestone

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

On an arguably brighter note, there is a milestone obituary in today's New York Times for Jennifer Paterson, one of the "Two Fat Ladies" of cooking show fame.
The Dow, however, is up 12 percent for the year, and when it hit 11,000, pundits everywhere proclaimed--depending upon their bullishness and bearishness--this a milestone.
An international consortium of university centers took 10 years to achieve this milestone in the human genome project, whose goal is to decipher all human DNA by 2005.
DOD also concurred that critical manufacturing processes must be demonstrated using statistical process control techniques before production, but believes that achieving this at Milestone C, the low rate production decision, is unlikely.
For me it served as a milestone prompting me to collect rare words.