Example sentences for: years

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

  • And the labor-market success of millions of unskilled immigrants in recent years makes it hard to sustain the case that only highly trained or educated workers are in demand--at least for the moment.

  • In an editorial titled "The Debt of Slavery," Le Monde of Paris said Monday that Europe and the United States should do more than just apologize to Africans for the terrible damage done to them over a period of 250 years.

  • Just one time (this was years before I was a second-tier public radio personality) I went to see his show at the Tech College, caught him out in the corridor, and lied to him about how much I liked his show (really, he talks so slow it makes me nervous, plus all that lip noise indicating introspection being released into the atmosphere) and, silly boy, launched into how I was doing a live daily radio show from a greasy spoon and all, and he looked at me and said, "Do you know where the bathroom is?"

  • On the evidence of his book, Pistone was truly torn up about having abandoned his family for the years it took him to infiltrate the mob, but he didn't lose as much sleep over what he was doing to his Mafia family.

  • John Quincy Adams' Inaugural Address 30 years later completed the apotheosis.


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