How to Use circa in a Sentence

circa

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• He was born circa 1600.
• He was dressed as a surgeon in the Army of the Potomac, circa 1863.
  — Sarah Ravani, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Oct. 2017
• He can be seen in the Nähr show heading up a vast crowd of hunters, circa 1910.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• This sky-blue slick back circa 2015, though, is next-level.
  — Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 6 May 2019
• My mother's kitchen, circa 1975, and guests are coming over for lunch.
  — Alex Hitz, House Beautiful, 2 Feb. 2013
• My pump looks like a smaller version of what iPhones looked like, circa 2005.
  — Sue Campbell, Good Housekeeping, 7 Mar. 2016
• Meanwhile that same risk doubled for white men and women born circa the 1960s.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Reed-Brown performs sleight-of-hand tricks while walking among them in this circa 1896 house.
  — courant.com, 15 July 2019
• Just resist the urge to slide a mini photo album into the middle circa your dad in 1993; that's what phones are for.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 23 Jan. 2018
• Don’t play cards on a train with a fella named Big Daddy (circa 1918).
  — Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2018
• The decor includes antique replica Texas flags and a map of Texas, circa 1845, that stands nine feet tall.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
• Our house, in a former New England mill and farming town, was built circa 1910.
  — Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2019
• Case in point: his cocktail dresses with conical breasts circa 1966.
  — Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• To cite one instance, the architects could have restored the porch, circa 1900, complete with muscular stonework and twin flights of stairs.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
• Ring Lardner’s short story is told by a barber to his customer in a small town in Michigan, circa 1925.
  — John Lithgow, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
• No quinoa and lentil salad here, just good old-fashioned American fare — circa 1950.
  — Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2013
• There is a large body of work produced circa 1980 with Juan’s inspiration and assistance.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 11 Feb. 2020
• Pictured is a Wells Case house circa 1918; photo by John Knoll.
  — Courant Community, 11 Dec. 2017
• The tan brick, Spanish-style center, circa 1930, has a partial terra cotta roof.
  — Joyce Smith, kansascity, 9 Apr. 2018
• Both products were launched circa 2007 and catalyzed entire industries.
  — Mark P. Mills, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
• The track—smooth as a Mayer pickup line circa Heavier Things—was already a prime contender for the song of summer 2018.
  — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 1 June 2018
• Carroll Shelby, who, as the movie opens, circa the mid-1960s, is forced to give up his driving career because of health issues.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Nov. 2019
• For a certain subset of millennial, the whole thing must have felt like the Superdome circa August 2005.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 5 May 2017
• Earrings made from the heads of Red Legged Honeycreeper birds, circa 1875.
  — Susan Delson, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• The tall, curly-haired brunette stands out; central casting circa 1935 would have hired her to play the role of feisty female archaeologist in some exotic locale.
  — Jude Isabella, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
• For example, in this photo (circa 1931), the Queen was about five years old, a few years older than Charlotte is right now.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Jan. 2018
• The house, built circa 1898, was part of the original enclave of Hamptons hideaways for the well-to-do along South Main Street.
  — Maria Carter, Country Living, 20 Aug. 2015
• Christie’s, for its part, maintains that the work is a Leonardo da Vinci original, painted circa 1500.
  — Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Quartzy, 11 June 2019
• Mods wearing polo shirts at The Scene club in Soho, London, circa 1964.
  — Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
• It’s hard to imagine a restaurant more puro San Antonio circa 2018 than La Panadería.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018

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