How to Use millennium in a Sentence

millennium

noun

• The book describes the changes that have occurred in the landscape over many millennia.
• The year 2000 was celebrated as the beginning of the third millennium.
• How will the large concrete bricks hold up to a millennium of weather and beyond?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2020
• But maybe he had been caught up in the overly zealous drug war at the turn of the new millennium, when marijuana was considered the gateway to all evils.
  — Shaheen Pasha, Longreads, 1 May 2020
• The layers in which the flints were found date to the eighth millennium B.C., the researchers write in the journal Antiquity.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2020
• Per the paper, the find is indicative of a broader shift toward urban settlement in the region around the turn of the first millennium A.D.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2020
• This is one good reason, among many, to doubt whether the 2024 election will usher in a right-wing millennium, never mind a fascist dictatorship.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
• With a full slate of new content planned for 2024, Juliana Hale is becoming one to watch among new millennium musical artists.
  — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 17 Sep. 2024
• But the film is most striking in its last act, which jumps millennia ahead to depict an Earth populated only by artificial beings that still cherish their extinct creators.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2020
• Somber and bluntly assertive, the Holzer is a thoroughly contemporary response to plagues that have been part of human experience for millennia.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2020
• But at the end of the day, the best book for success has been available to all for millennia: The Bible.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2024
• But a lot can happen to a work of art over the course of half a millennium.
  — Christopher Knight, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• Its end would be the news of the century, if not the millennium.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
• The camel reliefs at the Camel Site were dated to the sixth millennium bc.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• The album’s title refers, in part, to the fact that Ice was born at the dawn of the new millennium, right as the world freaked out about the Y2K bug.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2024
• In the seventh millennium BCE, things went wonky for a while.
  — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
• It’s set entirely in a high-end hotel in Gstaad on the eve of the new millennium, and takes place over the course of 24 hours.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Feb. 2023
• Three years later, at the tail end of the millennium, U2 returned to its rock roots.
  — Gary Dinges, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
• The new millennium saw a variety of up-and-comers added to the fold.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 17 June 2024
• Motya was a bustling port during the first millennium BC.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• For millennia, these markets had been a critical part of the daily life of the city.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• But the Dolphins have reached the playoffs just six times this millennium.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
• The idea for adding a day to the year to account for Earth's imperfect rotation around the Sun has been around for millennia.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
• Will the once-in-a-millennium pope emeritus be buried in them, too?
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• Hang with the Elk This was their land for millennia, but overhunting and loss of habitat wiped elk from the landscape.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
• Rideau: The 2000s brought in a sense of calmness in the new millennium, such as light brown, tan, and, near the coast, shades of white, blue, and blue-gray were very popular.
  — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 23 June 2023
• Two powerhouse singers who got their start at the dawn of the new millennium will bring their award-winning chops to the Hard Rock Live in Gary.
  — Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
• In a West Texas desert mountain, Bezos built a 500-foot-tall clock that ticks once a year and rings once a millennium.
  — Nicholas Clairmont, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
• In fact, the new millennium had prompted a surge in overstyled—and colored—looks.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2022
• For New Year's Eve 1999, the ball was replaced again to celebrate the new millennium.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024