year of our Lord

Example Sentences

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You know who won the lead actor Oscar the year of our Lord, the year of “The Big Lebowski”? Roberto Benigni.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2022

“For it is here that they will have been buried with shovels of emotion under piles of expediency in the year of our Lord, 1965.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2021

You don’t bring in a 37-year-old woman to review John Updike in the year of our Lord 2019 unless you’re hoping to see blood on the ceiling.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2019

A: Are you one of the Bennet sisters, or are there actual human beings in the year of our Lord 20 and 16 who think siblings have to get married according to birth order?

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2016

As reliably as I can learn, my mother died the same year I was born, the year of our Lord 1587, the twenty-ninth of Queen Elizabeth's reign.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood