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.
• 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
• In the series, the crew of the Scavenger are the first and only humans to live on Earth in nearly a millennium.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 21 Oct. 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
• Here’s a look at some of the restaurants that announced their closures in Dallas near the turn of the millennium.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2020
• 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
• How awesome the desert is in its vast emptiness, large enough to contain millennia.
  — Keija Parssinen, The New York Review of Books, 31 Jan. 2020
• How will the large concrete bricks hold up to a millennium of weather and beyond?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2020
• 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
• 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
• What is known is that dogs and humans have lived and worked together for millennia.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• The canoes span millennia of human progress and give clues to shifts in the environment.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
• And for millennia, those birds stopped to rest and feed in the wetlands of California’s Central Valley.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024