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.
• 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
• The first one is a Greek Revival century home on Banker’s Row.
  — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
• For more than half a century, Israel has controlled the borders of the West Bank and Gaza.
  — Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
• Lean pork floss and century egg congee is one of the classics served in the south of China.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The Nobel in economics was the last to be added to the prize categories more than half a century since the awards began.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2022
• First recorded centuries ago, the last T CrB nova occurred in 1946.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 1 July 2024
• The motion to vacate has only been used once before -- more than a century ago -- and failed.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• This drove the yen to the weakest level against the dollar in nearly a third of a century earlier this year.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
• During the 17th and 18th centuries, the cathedral underwent major restorations and additions.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
• In the late 19th century, before the invention of cinema and radio, every piece of music, performance, oration—even a natural view like a rainbow—was a unique event.
  — Todd Eckert, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024