How to Use the turn of the century in a Sentence

the turn of the century

noun phrase

• But at the turn of the century, the emphasis turned to home runs.
  — Jason Parker, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
• But at the turn of the century, the number of working kids soared.
  — Beth Saunders, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2023
• The band The Postal Service was an indie-pop darling near the turn of the century.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 13 July 2024
• Punks is a film from the turn of the century about a group of Black gay friends in Los Angeles.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2023
• By the turn of the century, Potter found herself over 30 and in need of something else to do.
  — Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• But, since the turn of the century, Gowanus has been changing, along with the rest of Brooklyn, if a bit slower.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
• By the turn of the century, the campaign to eradicate it from polite speech was in full force.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• And just before the turn of the century, a roller coaster, the Switchback Railway, was added.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
• The amount of land set aside for cargo storage has almost doubled in size since the turn of the century.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
• Villoria got his first job in the games industry at the turn of the century.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• At the turn of the century, after D.C. crime rates improved, the Metro and street patrols went dormant.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• Since 2000, days that hot have been rare, and before the turn of the century, they were never recorded, per the paper.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
• Around the turn of the century, the per diem for Tarrant County prisoners was 30 cents for three hot meals a day.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2024
• The report found that there were four times as many millionaires today as there were at the turn of the century.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2023
• Like many Black girls at the turn of the century (and today), Victoria loved Destiny’s Child.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
• The two programs have been among the best in the state consistently since the turn of the century, winning four state titles between the two.
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
• Though nowhere near the pack racing days of the turn of the century, Sunday’s closing laps were a reminder – for better or worse – what that era was like.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
• One of the other things is that the photographs from the turn of the century are often devoid of any modern context.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
• After the turn of the century, Principal stepped away from screens and focused on her wellness projects.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
• The attacks that were prevented at the turn of the century offer lessons today—as do the ones that weren’t prevented on 9/11.
  — Graham Allison, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• At the turn of the century, a group of rogue whiskey makers known as rectifiers were putting additives in spirits.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 4 June 2024
• At the turn of the century, queen conchs littered the ocean floor, ambling across flats and hard bottom, tidying up by grazing on algae.
  — Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
• The band rose to prominence with a rap-metal hybrid that rubbed elbows with Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and Korn at the turn of the century.
  — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 14 June 2023
• Since the turn of the century, the Oscars' best actress category is one that has made quite a bit of history.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• After years of upgrading cars like the Ford Mustang, the shop decided to finally build a car of its own around the turn of the century.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 June 2024
• By the turn of the century child labor had become a national issue.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
• The fences have risen higher and the border has hardened since the turn of the century, separating families and friends.
  — James Montague Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Since the turn of the century, the debate has been enlivened by the discovery of new specimens, including a 21-foot-long one named Jane.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• Several European banks have moved to cut interest rates ahead of the Fed, breaking a streak of the U.S.’s first-mover status that had stood since the turn of the century.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 18 May 2024
• Since the turn of the century, new vertical HIV infections in children have declined by over 75%.
  — Jennifer Lotito, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Aug 2024