How to Use century in a Sentence

century

noun

• When the prince got married, it was called the wedding of the century.
• It took more than a century to complete the cathedral.
• The pottery dates back to the sixth century B.C.E.
• The United States, still less than a century old, was riven by a destructive civil war.
  — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• The first-in-a-century drama on Capitol Hill opens the door to a raft of unprecedented outcomes.
  — Dave Goldiner New York Daily News (tns), al, 4 Jan. 2023
• This made their response to a once-in-a-century public health crisis challenging and often inadequate.
  — Lauren Sausser, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023
• Tampa Bay, home to 3 million people and the nation's most vulnerable metro area to storm surge, could see its worst flooding in more than a century.
  — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 9 Oct. 2024
• Yet a century of construction advancement allowed builders in the early 1900s to expand room sizes and open spaces more to the outdoors.
  — oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2023
• For more than a half-century, Pearlstein painted nude studio models under harsh, artificial light with a clinical eye and icy precision.
  — Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
• For more than a quarter century the Grünbaum heirs argued unsuccessfully for the return of Schiele artworks in civil suits in state and federal courts.
  — Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
• But of the 24 songs touched on, only eight were from the 21st century, with only three from the past decade.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• The roots of this tactic go back more than half a century.
  — Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
• Since the silent era, a century’s worth of movies has told us how to love, how to die, how to dress, how to behave.
  — Peter Biskind, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
• These maces, which date back to the 17th century, are made of silver gilt over oak.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2023
• For more than half a century, Israel has controlled the borders of the West Bank and Gaza.
  — Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
• The third piece of this century-old maze is the main space, where a 6-burner stove sits across from a 7-foot work table.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• The film—which take place across Hong Kong and France—is one of the most critically beloved films of the century, if not all time.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2023
• The Coronation Oath has stood for centuries and is enshrined in law.
  — Town & Country, 7 May 2023
• One of the greatest living lutenists, North will play Italian pieces with La Morra from the 15th and 16th centuries.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
• Swift is the only act with three albums to spend at least 10 weeks at No. 1 this century.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 30 June 2024
• And for centuries, religions have embraced a love to all pets.
  — Matt Keenan, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
• Glia, once thought to be mere glue that fills the space between neurons, were largely ignored in the brain for much of the 20th century.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
• The 20th century was marked by change and new beginnings.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2024
• The wetlands restoration will cover 5.8 acres, the last of what more than a century ago was a 44-acre coastal lagoon.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
• Much later, in the ninth century, a hermit named Pelayo is said to have told Teodomiro about a strange shower of bright stars.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
• Fuel emissions standards, the likes of which the United States has had for half a century.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• Part of the solution is supposed to be housing that’s been in Skid Row for more than a century.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• The town is a sacred place for Native Hawaiians and was the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom for the first half of the 19th century.
  — Justine McDaniel and Maham Javaid, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Nearly a century ago, Sylvia Townsend Warner published one of the greatest of all novels about a woman who transcends the impasse of midlife.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
• Gonzalez-Torres is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
  — Nathan Pugh, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024