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1820s

NOUN
  1. the decade from 1820 to 1829

How To Use 1820s In A Sentence

  • Only a feat of brilliant decipherment by Jean-François Champollion, working in the 1820s, allowed us to understand ancient Egypt again in its own terms. Beyond the Pharaohs
  • Numerous period features remain: the Victorian staircase with its carved wooden banisters, the 1820s ornate stuccoed ceilings, the many stone and marble fireplaces.
  • By 1860 imported boars and improved husbandry yielded a hog notably superior to that of the 1820s and '30s.
  • Many of these hill stations began life as long ago as the 1820s, when early British settlers first sought nests in attractive locations.
  • From the 1820s Clydesdale, Shire and other heavy breeds were imported, but it was not until later in the century that horse teams dominated haulage.
  • In the 1820s Bath, Bristol, Dublin, and Edinburgh, cities which had flourished in the eighteenth century, were all still raising classical squares, streets, and crescents.
  • During the 1820s, a pompous and untalented versifier referred to the Pacific as a ‘liquid waste’, which makes it sound like sewage.
  • The other matter is that up through the 1820s publishers didn't issue "finished" editions for authors to sign; you bought a book in quires of printed pages and, if you chose and could afford to, took them to a bookbinder. Beware Rare Book Forgeries
  • Some were beautifully illustrated in color; no doubt providing the source of some of the polychrome flower painting that sometimes complemented black and white penwork in the late 1820s and 1830s.
  • The 1820s still suffered agricultural depression despite a high ceiling for corn prices in years of poor harvests.
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