How to Use circa in a Sentence
circa
preposition- He was born circa 1600.
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He can be seen in the Nähr show heading up a vast crowd of hunters, circa 1910.
—J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 12 July 2018
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My mother's kitchen, circa 1975, and guests are coming over for lunch.
—Alex Hitz, House Beautiful, 2 Feb. 2013
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My pump looks like a smaller version of what iPhones looked like, circa 2005.
—Sue Campbell, Good Housekeeping, 7 Mar. 2016
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Meanwhile that same risk doubled for white men and women born circa the 1960s.
—Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 20 Nov. 2019
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Reed-Brown performs sleight-of-hand tricks while walking among them in this circa 1896 house.
—courant.com, 15 July 2019
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He was dressed as a surgeon in the Army of the Potomac, circa 1863.
—Sarah Ravani, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Oct. 2017
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Don’t play cards on a train with a fella named Big Daddy (circa 1918).
—Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2018
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Our house, in a former New England mill and farming town, was built circa 1910.
—Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2019
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No quinoa and lentil salad here, just good old-fashioned American fare — circa 1950.
—Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, 9 Sep. 2013
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The decor includes antique replica Texas flags and a map of Texas, circa 1845, that stands nine feet tall.
—Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
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Just resist the urge to slide a mini photo album into the middle circa your dad in 1993; that's what phones are for.
—Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 23 Jan. 2018
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Pictured is a Wells Case house circa 1918; photo by John Knoll.
—Courant Community, 11 Dec. 2017
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The tan brick, Spanish-style center, circa 1930, has a partial terra cotta roof.
—Joyce Smith, kansascity, 9 Apr. 2018
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Ring Lardner’s short story is told by a barber to his customer in a small town in Michigan, circa 1925.
—John Lithgow, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
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To cite one instance, the architects could have restored the porch, circa 1900, complete with muscular stonework and twin flights of stairs.
—Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
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Set design drawings for ‘Carousel’ by Jo Mielziner, circa 1945.
—Maya Sweedler, WSJ, 7 July 2018
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Carroll Shelby, who, as the movie opens, circa the mid-1960s, is forced to give up his driving career because of health issues.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Nov. 2019
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For example, in this photo (circa 1931), the Queen was about five years old, a few years older than Charlotte is right now.
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Jan. 2018
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Earrings made from the heads of Red Legged Honeycreeper birds, circa 1875.
—Susan Delson, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
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Mods wearing polo shirts at The Scene club in Soho, London, circa 1964.
—Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
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The track—smooth as a Mayer pickup line circa Heavier Things—was already a prime contender for the song of summer 2018.
—The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 1 June 2018
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For a certain subset of millennial, the whole thing must have felt like the Superdome circa August 2005.
—Bess Levin, The Hive, 5 May 2017
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The house, built circa 1898, was part of the original enclave of Hamptons hideaways for the well-to-do along South Main Street.
—Maria Carter, Country Living, 20 Aug. 2015
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The brick home, circa 1804, is in the picturesque Rose Hall District and is filled with period antiques and reproductions to set the scene.
—Jennifer Franklin, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
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East + West took part of the former Bob Jones Shoes warehouse space, exposing the original hardwood floors and brick walls, circa 1910.
—Joyce Smith, kansascity, 1 Mar. 2018
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