How to Use golden age in a Sentence

golden age

noun
  • God, the George W. Bush-era seems like the golden age now.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The span between the ending of the war and 1900 was the golden age of the railroad.
    Curtis Varnell, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024
  • From the wrecks, to the riots, to a golden age and beyond.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Now, with Tokyo about to stage the Olympics, Japan is at the dawn of a golden age in sports.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
  • Leave the iPads at home and take in the golden age of kids’ podcasts.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In 2017, Christopher Orr declared the Pixar golden age over and done with in the pages of the ...
    Ross Douthat, National Review, 23 June 2022
  • That said, this does seem to be a new golden age for the Gold’s Gym set.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Part of the fun of the golden age of television was the rise of the TV recap.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024
  • The Big Sick is a modern must-watch for fans of the golden age of rom-coms.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 22 June 2024
  • To a lot of country fans, the early 1990s was the golden age of the format.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
  • This seems a golden age for choral singing in North Texas.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2020
  • This is the golden age of gummies, and that can seem like a great thing.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Not all that long ago, the spring of 2020 seemed like a golden age of wonders.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The paths of people like Carter are a measure of the golden age lost.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
  • What were your favorite NYC clubs in the golden age of jazz?
    David Netto, Town & Country, 26 Oct. 2018
  • The witch trials, the golden age of Salem, and Hocus Pocus.
    Shannon Carlin, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The bullpen was the Detroit Tigers' Achilles heel during the club's golden age last decade.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
  • While the golden age of the Maya has long passed, the culture is by no means extinct.
    Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Of course, even in the golden age of AOL, few people wrote such e-mails.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • This is the golden age of something good and right and real.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2021
  • For many people, the golden age of LucasArts had drawn to a close.
    Michael Thompson, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2018
  • Within a few years, the golden age of video games came to a crashing halt.
    Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2020
  • These are not the people who enjoyed the largesse of the postwar golden age.
    James Chappel, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • In the center of India, the city of Pune and the Maratha hills, flush with loot, entered their golden age.
    The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
  • Good luck telling the regulars the golden age was over.
    The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 28 June 2024
  • Only time will tell if the Merge catalyzes a golden age for Ethereum that lasts for the long haul.
    Taylor Locke, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The vintage-look Atari 2600 Plus is a throwback to the golden age of video gaming.
    Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The golden age, when everyone had a phone at home and picked it up, is over.
    Karl Rove, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The Isle of Berk is a Viking-sized village set during the golden age of harmony between Vikings and dragons (think between the second and third movie).
    Samantha Neely, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
  • After the new president was in office for a month or so, Americans couldn’t help but notice that a golden age was not yet upon us.
    Bruce Yandle, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025

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