Example sentences for: turn-of-the-century

How can you use “turn-of-the-century” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The old town, which is peppered with several fine turn-of-the-century cafés on or near Praça República (including Café Astoria and A Brasileira), is a delight to wander around.

  • Rap returns us to the same sprawling prolixity as 1890s ballads--and 12-verse story songs, whether they're lilting waltzes or numbingly hard-core, are rarely distinguished as music . Almost all turn-of-the-century blockbusters have the simplest of tonal structures.

  • In this sense, Lukas' story may have been important as part of the struggle over the future of organized labor, but less so as a struggle over America's soul, at least when compared with the truly momentous Homestead and Pullman strikes of the 1890s, the Triangle Shirt Waist Co. fire of 1911, or any of the other more familiar set pieces of turn-of-the-century labor history.

  • Picasso had his first public exhibition here in 1901, and the bar, one of the first commissions for the modernista architect Puig i Cadafalch, preserves its turn-of-the-century ambience.

  • Freud grappled with this very dilemma in turn-of-the-century Vienna.


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