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 first one is a Greek Revival century home on Banker’s Row.
  — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
• The race for the White House, in fact, may be the closest presidential election in over a century.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
• Over the Rams’ last six games, he’s gone over the century mark four times while demonstrating his versatility.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
• American politics has been balancing on a narrow trapeze wire for the entire twenty-first century.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 Nov. 2022
• Use a century-and-a-half-old constitutional amendment crafted in the wake of the Civil War.
  — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 18 Nov. 2022
• The first 10 years of the 20th century brought America its first gasoline filling station and paved road.
  — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
• Most baby boomers are now 65 and older, putting them in the only US age group where the divorce rate climbed steadily for more than half a century.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
• The Keeling Curve shows a dramatic rise in carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere over more than half a century.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
• Irritation about the oath among provincial lawmakers in Quebec dates back at least half a century to the dawn of the modern separatist movement.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
• There is irony, too, in the woman who gives her life: The six-time Emmy Award winner is a hugely successful star who has been a household name for more than half a century.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
• Radar detectors have been commercially available for more than half a century now, helping countless drivers save serious money by avoiding speeding tickets.
  — Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024