How to Use historic in a Sentence

historic

adjective

• They know of many historic volcanic eruptions in the area.
• The court made a historic decision last week.
• She returned safely from her historic flight into space.
• It's wonderful to see so many people here on this historic occasion.
• Both unions are in the midst of historic strikes against the major studios.
  — Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• At the time, homicides in Kansas City dropped to a historic low.
  — Anna Spoerre, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
• What is the name of the group that just ended its historic Hollywood strike?
  — CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
• That historic brick is now sitting on a shelf in my office.
  — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2023
• Shohei Ohtani is a historic talent in a contract year, and the struggling Angels face a hard choice.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 10 July 2023
• For one, the historic venue is still around and would be my gateway between the two time periods.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2024
• The deal, clearly, was a historic failure for Brooklyn.
  — Hayden Bird, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• So this came in the middle of a historic global heat wave in which the earth reached its hottest day ever recorded three days in a row.
  — ABC News, 9 July 2023
• At the same gathering, Queen Elizabeth posed with the next three in the line of succession to the throne for a historic portrait.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
• The blazes that consumed most of the historic town of Lahaina, are already the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, with a death toll of at least 96.
  — Claire Rush, Audrey McAvoy and Christopher Weber, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
• Michael is set to survey Jackson’s life and historic four-decade career.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2024
• Over the last decade, the sellers have been carefully tending to the historic abode and making many modern updates along the way.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
• The energy in the historic building was hard to ignore—it was filled with excitement.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 6 Sep. 2023
• Since the lawsuit was filed, the Kern River has surged back to life with abundant runoff from last winter’s storms and the historic snowpack in the Sierra Nevada.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Bringing his family front and center on the historic day, he was then joined by his wife and their children on the palace balcony.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• The movement comes months after a report scolded UMN for its historic mistreatment of the state's tribes.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 9 July 2023
• That means the final mile of the Fed’s historic inflation would have to be helped along by waning demand, which is still going strong.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
• Each of the five villages merits a wander through the historic center and up along the tangle of paths that lead to clandestine eateries.
  — Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
• At the time, Black models were not the norm so this was a historic moment not just for Johnson but also for models who aspired to be her.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 17 Jan. 2024
• Field also played the historic first lady in Spielberg's 2012 film Lincoln.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2024
• And this week on Face the Nation: A historic strike hits one of America's major industries.
  — CBS News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Average ice cover across all the lakes hit a historic low in mid-February.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
• In the historic capital Jamestown, the Mantis St. Helena remains the smartest hotel on the island.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
• The historic success, the personal downfall, the epic comeback, the car accident that nearly claimed his life.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• Isaiah Hodgins helped the New York Giants go from an embarrassing loss to a historic win.
  — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
• Puka Nacua is a burgeoning star, a rookie off to a historic start for the Rams in part because of a hamstring injury that sidelined Kupp for the first four games of the season.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024