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Example Sentences
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The share of young people in the housing market has plummeted since the turn of the century.
They stayed roughly the same size for a century.
A wolf made history last Saturday when she wandered into the mountains of Los Angeles County, where her kind hadn’t been documented in more than a century.
From Los Angeles Times
Factory-built homes made of wood and iron were a mainstay of the colonial enterprises of the 19th century.
From Los Angeles Times
From the 17th to 19th centuries, spaghetti was a popular street food in Naples, typically enjoyed with one’s bare hands in large fistfuls.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
