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1. This practice has remained unaltered for centuries.
2. I deserted for half a century did not wait for my followers.
3. A century ago, eastern Germany was an agricultural hinterland.
4. The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.
5. Later centuries saw the development of a complex transport system.

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 Meanings and Examples of CENTURIES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
century
 n.  a period of 100 years
Classic Sentence: (170 in 12 pages)
1  It is of the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is composed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
2  If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, let him look at Machiavelli.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
3  There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
4  It represented the minute at loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other hand with eternal right.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
5  Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thenardier; Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by Gavroche.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
6  It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible human misery.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
7  It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten centuries.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
8  Our civilization, the work of twenty centuries, is its law and its prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
9  Those minutes in which one lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—MARIUS
10  Caesar and Tacitus are two successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, regulates the entrances and the exits.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
11  Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of the centuries, halos of civilization.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
12  If a giant had filtered this cesspool, he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
13  The last ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a termination, any more than they have been able to finish Paris.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
14  We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease of Paris.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
15  For sixty centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
16  A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.
17  Later centuries saw the development of a complex transport system.
18  It's been believed for centuries that great writers, composers and scientists are essentially quite different from ordinary people.
19  Carefully stripping away centuries of paint, the scientists uncovered a valuable old wall painting.
20  For centuries, quilting and patchwork have been popular needlecrafts.
21  This practice has remained unaltered for centuries.
22  The two groups have existed in a state of mutual distrust for centuries.
23  Dürer's famous watercolour and gouache drawing Young Hare is a masterpiece in observation; its impeccable rendering served as benchmark for centuries thereafter.
24  In his novels and stories, storms rage for years, flowers drift from the skies, tyrants survive for centuries, priests levitate and corpses fail to decompose. And, more plausibly, lovers rekindle their passion after a half-century apart.
25  A century ago, eastern Germany was an agricultural hinterland.
26  The town hall is the only edifice surviving from the fifteenth century.
27  The following quotation is taken from a nineteenth century travel diary.
28  In the mid-nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix began to campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
29  I deserted for half a century did not wait for my followers.
30  The eleventh century saw the formal rupture between East and West.