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twentieth century

NOUN
  1. the century from 1901 to 2000

How To Use twentieth century In A Sentence

  • In the first half of the twentieth century, Darwinian evolution and Mendelian genetics were not popular subjects in France.
  • Mao was your typical twentieth century despot, and only moon-eyed Communists would beg to differ. Chairman Mao in a Dress Not Funny?
  • The Mullahs remained a dominant influence until the twentieth century when the Pahlavis attempted to curb them.
  • He was one of the finest American prose stylists of the twentieth century - is also on the list.
  • In the early part of the twentieth century, the B.V.D. brand of men's underwear (notable for its front buttons and back flaps) so dominated the marketplace that 'BVDs' became a general term used to refer to any brand of similar product (i.e., lightweight, one-piece long underwear for men), and eventually to all types and brands of men's underwear as well. New Urban Legends
  • During the first quarter of the twentieth century, Old Lyme was the center of a leading Impressionist art colony.
  • Of course, retreating from the trials of the twentieth century existence does not mean one wants to abandon its many creature comforts.
  • At the national level, they show that for most of the twentieth century, each successive cohort of young people left home at an average age below that of the cohort immediately preceding them.
  • It has been said that today print culture is in decline, but contrarily, the book industry has grown in the late twentieth century.
  • The second half of the twentieth century belonged to the young.
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