How to Use century in a Sentence

century

noun

• When the prince got married, it was called the wedding of the century.
• It took more than a century to complete the cathedral.
• The pottery dates back to the sixth century B.C.E.
• The soul singer has been gone for more than half a century.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• The Hartmans work around a small grove of old growth oaks that have seen the change of century.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
• The historic, turn of the century home set the tone for the performance.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2022
• But of the 24 songs touched on, only eight were from the 21st century, with only three from the past decade.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• The roots of this tactic go back more than half a century.
  — Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
• Since the silent era, a century’s worth of movies has told us how to love, how to die, how to dress, how to behave.
  — Peter Biskind, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
• These maces, which date back to the 17th century, are made of silver gilt over oak.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Apr. 2023
• On the ground, senior Charles Kellom hit the century mark for the fourth straight time with 108 yards and four romps to the end zone.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 Oct. 2021
• The first one is a Greek Revival century home on Banker’s Row.
  — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
• Monte dei Paschi’s five-and-a-half-century run is coming to an end.
  — New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• For more than half a century, Israel has controlled the borders of the West Bank and Gaza.
  — Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
• Lean pork floss and century egg congee is one of the classics served in the south of China.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
• The third piece of this century-old maze is the main space, where a 6-burner stove sits across from a 7-foot work table.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
• But at least no crock-pots were armed in the telling of this century-spanning mystery.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 9 May 2021
• Covid-19 wasn’t the outlier, a once-in-a-century tragedy.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2022
• The film—which take place across Hong Kong and France—is one of the most critically beloved films of the century, if not all time.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2023
• The Coronation Oath has stood for centuries and is enshrined in law.
  — Town & Country, 7 May 2023
• One of the greatest living lutenists, North will play Italian pieces with La Morra from the 15th and 16th centuries.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
• Swift is the only act with three albums to spend at least 10 weeks at No. 1 this century.
  — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 30 June 2024
• And for centuries, religions have embraced a love to all pets.
  — Matt Keenan, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
• Glia, once thought to be mere glue that fills the space between neurons, were largely ignored in the brain for much of the 20th century.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2024
• The 20th century was marked by change and new beginnings.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2024
• The OceanPlace center failed to get off to a strong start despite the optimism and turn-of-the-century hoopla.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2022
• In his 530th career game, Cabrera had two homers, with the second putting him at the century mark.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2021
• For over a century and a half, vast wealth was extracted.
  — Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025
• Arguably its symbolic ending following the end of the Berlin Wall was one of the defining moments of that century.
  — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
• My younger daughter, Celia, is the first person in my entire family to be born outside of Louisiana since the turn of the twentieth century.
  — Jeanie Riess, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025