How to Use decade in a Sentence

decade

noun

• The bridge was built a decade ago.
• There have been a lot of changes during the past two decades.
• The war lasted nearly a decade.
• That's just the last two decades.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
• That push builds on a decade of growth.
  — Andy Vasoyan, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• The show is set to last at least a decade.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026
• That’s more than triple what the city paid just two decades ago.
  — John J Roach Iii, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
• One toe in the water per decade.
  — David Soren, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
• No one has in the decades since, either.
  — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
• But getting the project made took decades.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
• This has been the guidance for decades.
  — CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
• Many who grew up in the area weren’t told about the risks for decades.
  — Michael Phillis and Jim Salter, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
• If we were caught along the way, my mom would spend decades in prison.
  — Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
• These questions go back decades.
  — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
• Samari has been her best friend for nearly two decades.
  — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 13 June 2026
• Over the next decade, the Mai Tai spreads.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
• Many of those records appeared to be more than a decade old.
  — Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
• There is no cure, though some patients can live for decades.
  — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Feb. 2026
• Details like that tend to get lost over the course of four decades.
  — Sean Burch, SPIN, 29 May 2023
• It’s been done pretty damn well for many, many, many decades.
  — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
• There used to be a store, decades ago, and a small gas station.
  — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
• The city would serve as his on-again, off-again home base for the next six decades.
  — Terry Nguyen, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
• That puts the onus squarely on two of the team’s top picks from the last decade.
  — Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
• Davis has worked at the factory for about a decade.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 6 June 2026
• Carpet floors have been a staple in homes for decades.
  — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2026
• Life savings became the loss of a home built over decades.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
• One day turned into a decade, then a lifetime.
  — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
• Probably not for a decade or two!
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 28 Sep. 2025
• After all, he’s starred in five of them over the course of the last four decades.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
• Jackson has moved on in the past decade to sports fame and riches.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 16 May 2026