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 park has seven sections, including Main Street, USA, with its re-creation of turn-of-the-century America facing the much photographed Cinderella Castle.

  • 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.

  • While the comparison between the modern-day "Patriot movement" to which McVeigh belongs and the turn-of-the-century anarchist movement is worth making, the contrasts, rather than similarities, are what stand out.

  • Less conventionally ambitious, and possibly more affecting because of it, is Michael Lesy's Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century , a collection of turn-of-the-century photographic postcards that are both graphically gorgeous and spiritually haunting.

  • Morgan, the turn-of-the-century financier, had a stock answer for people who asked him what the stock market would do: "It will fluctuate."


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