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.
• The decade of the 1920s runs from January 1, 1920 to December 31, 1929.
• 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
• The 3-0 start in conference play is the school's first in a decade.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
• Details like that tend to get lost over the course of four decades.
  — Sean Burch, SPIN, 29 May 2023
• No, the name wouldn’t be perfect for a couple more decades.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2023
• The band is fearless — that’s clear in the sonic zigzagging it’s done over the last two decades.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• That kind of drought hasn’t happened at any point this decade, the Globe’s review found.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• Brown said that’s at the key of what’s kept the center going for four decades and what has kept him there.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• The twins from Bora were the first set of twins born in the reserve in decades, Samburu said.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2023
• And until the last decade or so, they were barely known outside Haiti.
  — Tony Sachs, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
• This issue has been simmering at the F.D.A. for decades.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• Then, nearly a decade later, Miles stepped in, ably, to reboot him.
  — Avery Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• Of course, the legacies built by the aforementioned trio didn’t come without decades of hard work.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
• The number of people bitten by sharks worldwide has held steady at about 70 or 80 a year over the past decade.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 19 Aug. 2023
• For the greater part of a decade, Cuyahoga County has been grappling with how to pay for the construction of a new jail.
  — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
• Last year, the U.S. announced its own vision for research needed over the decade.
  — From U-T News Services, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023
• The museum sought to place a nominee in the poll for the decade of his greatest impact on the Orioles.
  — Paul McCardell, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2024
• While there have been claims of bribery and bout-rigging in the sport for decades, the most recent allegations came out of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
  — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• More than a decade into his run, Drake still possesses the power to turn any type of song into a smash.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2023
• This is Boehm’s gloss on the familiar projection that the program’s trust fund will run out some time in the middle of that decade.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• But so far as decades go, the 1960s dominate—slightly less so among younger voters.
  — J. Hoberman, The New Republic, 22 June 2023
• The 1992 paper remained the last word on see-through wood for more than a decade, until a researcher named Lars Berglund stumbled across it.
  — Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• On average, the consumer price index for San Diego has risen a half a percent faster than the rest of the nation every year for the last decade.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
• Their success over decades has earned them a large and loyal following.
  — Craig Meyer, Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2023
• Romero said Biden has a list of accomplishments that her constituents will feel the benefits of for decades.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• The show will be set in 1991 with Mark Harmon (who played Gibbs for nearly two decades) serving as narrator.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 5 Jan. 2024
• The temptation might have been there to tinker with a formula that has made the festival such a success for the past two decades.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 9 June 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024