decade

In a sentence

Six example sentences with decade, each labelled with its topic.

• The gallery devoted a whole floor to one decade, hanging work made between the first moon landing and the oil crisis.

  Art

• The bridge took a decade to finish, and the ferry it replaced still runs twice a week for tourists.

  Travel

• Wages in the region barely moved for a decade, even as the port doubled the tonnage it handled each year.

  Economics

• The franchise went a full decade without a playoff win, then reached the finals twice in three seasons.

  Basketball

• In a single decade the phone in your pocket went from a novelty to the device most people bank on.

  Technology

• The band released one album every decade, and each one sounds like a different group wearing the same name.

  Music

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• administrative
• pose
• initiative
• output
• discriminate
• detected
• assumption
• varied
• circumstance
• statistic
• potentially
• finances