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Example sentences for "centenary"

Lexicographically close words:
centaury; centavo; centavos; centenarian; centenarians; center; centerboard; centered; centering; centerpiece
  1. His work was not seen in a right light until shown in the German Centenary Exhibition of 1906, when his just place was first, in the history of art, assigned to him.

  2. The vision that has fired its members, on the occasion of the centenary celebrations which witnessed the launching of the Ten Year Plan must, no matter how prolonged or arduous the task, never grow dim.

  3. In the month of February, 1904, the centenary of the death of Kant was celebrated throughout the world of culture.

  4. Berluc-Pérussis, was held at Vaucluse to celebrate the fifth centenary of the death of Petrarch.

  5. The centenary of Petrarch celebrated at Avignon in 1874 tended to emphasize the importance and the glory of the new literature.

  6. The three years since the celebration of the Centenary have been characterized by a simultaneous process of internal consolidation and steady enlargement of the orbit of a fast-evolving Administrative Order.

  7. Three corner panels bearing symbol of ringstone erected, presaging completion of both parapet and arcade on the occasion of approaching Centenary of martyrdom of the Blessed Báb.

  8. Another centenary commemorating an event as tragic and infinitely more glorious is fast approaching.

  9. This incomparable relic was exposed to the veneration of the faithful at the eighteenth centenary of the martyrdom of St. Peter.

  10. The Darwin centenary is a fitting moment at which to take stock of our position.

  11. I have worked off my spleen on a long centenary paper on Dickens for the Radcastrian, which will excite and annoy the lovers of that novelist a good deal.

  12. I made all the boys in my form write centenary appreciations of Dickens, too.

  13. The Portuguese stamps issued in 1898 to celebrate the fourth centenary of the discovery of the route to India bear very attractive pictures.

  14. A great struggle took place on the centenary of the battle of Plassey (June 23), and another on the 25th of August; but on both occasions the mutineers were repulsed with heavy loss.

  15. A centenary celebration implies a history and a past, and this history is remarkably well illustrated by the instruments of civilisation now in the hands of the founders.

  16. The Pan-American Congress was the natural outcome of the great international exhibition by which the Argentine Republic celebrated the centenary of its independence.

  17. The visit of the Infanta Isabella on the occasion of the Centenary Fetes in honour of the independence was a happy thought on the part of the Spanish Government.

  18. He had just returned from Prague, where Mozart's centenary had been duly celebrated, the whole of the arrangements having been left in his hands.

  19. Centenary of the Birmingham Library, by Sam: Timmins, 1879.

  20. It was first struck in 1875, the centenary of his birth.

  21. We cannot, therefore, as yet fix upon the objects of our Centenary Offering.

  22. We need to recall the fact of the influence of the centenary period upon the human mind.

  23. We are approaching the centenary of the fall of the Bastile.

  24. As you know, he has been carrying on the construction of the first stage, the arcade, of the Báb’s Shrine in anticipation of having it finished for the July 9 Centenary Celebrations of His Martyrdom.

  25. But it is one of the special joys of our centenary services that Dr.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centenary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anniversary; annual; biennial; birthday; centenarian; centipede; centurion; century; commemoration; daily; diurnal; fortnightly; gross; hourly; hundred; menstrual; momentary; monthly; secular; semiannual; semimonthly; tercentenary; triennial; weekly; yearly