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turn of the century

NOUN
  1. the period from about ten years before to ten years after a new century

How To Use turn of the century In A Sentence

  • The guidebook is undated but probably appeared just after the turn of the century. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
  • Schreker's opera not as a work from a turn of the century long ago, but as a paradigm with very contemporary relevance.
  • He was born at the turn of the century.
  • By the turn of the century, gardens had become symbols of longing, nostalgia and a desire to return to simpler times. Times, Sunday Times
  • Oversize heads, insert putters and no-hosel woods were around at the turn of the century.
  • At the turn of the century, he had been excited by his conception of the Mystic Hussars routine.
  • These photographs capture the essence of working-class life at the turn of the century.
  • I often feel I am an anachronism, that I would be more at home at the turn of the century than today.
  • Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms.
  • People in this region embraced Christianity the turn of the century.
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