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Example sentences for "eras"

Lexicographically close words:
eradication; eram; eran; erano; erant; erase; erased; eraser; erasers; erasing
  1. But when we look back through the past eras to palaeozoic plants the subject is not so easy, and the two main types of potentially reproductive masses are not sharply distinct.

  2. We can place the salient features of the flora of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras in a few pages of print, and the contrast becomes surprising.

  3. It was another of those wild eras in which the worst and the best that are in human nature jostled each other at every turn.

  4. We have traced the successive eras which have brought the land of the Oregon from a wilderness to a group of powerful young American States, abounding in resources and filled to the brim with hope and enthusiasm.

  5. As a matter of fact there were several eras of each, interlocked with each other: upheaval, fire, flood, and frost.

  6. As compared with the two preceding eras there was little in this period strikingly new in social history.

  7. The principle of absolute monarchy continued to be followed in Moslem Spain, and was even accentuated, whether in the eras of the taifas, or at times of a single dominion.

  8. The two eras are, that of Protestantism religious and civil, and that of Christian revival in all the orders and relations of the Catholic Church.

  9. In it, not two ages, but two great eras meet and trace broadly their distinction one from the other--an era that is closing, and one that is about to begin.

  10. How rich a portion of the geology of the globe lies buried in the flora and fauna of the tertiary, the middle or secondary, and the palæozoic eras of its valley, we have hardly begun to inquire.

  11. I may be allowed in a few sentences to attempt to show the principle on which such a sketch should be written, in describing the three great eras of progress in improvement of the methods of amputating.

  12. They cover the three great eras of Hebrew history, viz.

  13. Pharaohs between the eras of Joseph and the Exodus.

  14. The results were a constantly increasing power, and extending degree of knowledge up to the respective eras of their conquest.

  15. It would behoove us to remember, perhaps, that the eras of great deeds have not been eras of analysis, but eras when the creative imagination was at work.

  16. I believe of all such eras the aged may say as the poet says of his birthday: "What a different sound That word had in my younger years!

  17. In an outer region, which includes the vast desert of Khiva, shells also abound; but they seem to belong, as a group, rather to some of the later Tertiary eras than to the recent period.

  18. Great philosophical works of past eras are still alive in a sense, but they dwell among us as foreigners do, while Mother Goose has been naturalized.

  19. Not many centuries ago, in those eras when few changes took place, men thought of the world as something to study, instead of to mold.

  20. Disillusion is the mark of civilised eras as opposed to barbaric ones and if the dream of the poets is ever realised and the Golden Age returns, such an age will be the supreme age of happy, triumphant disillusion.

  21. Yet we must follow out the train of reasoning, and see what will happen in the end, in eras and eras of time, if nothing intervenes.

  22. Men who appear at certain eras of society, however they be lauded for what they have done, are still liable to be censured for not doing what they ought to have done.

  23. Secondly, these eras are further divided into certain periods.

  24. First, they are roughly divided into three large groups, marking the three great eras into which geological time is divided.

  25. Mr. President, three great eras have marked the history of this country in respect to slavery.

  26. The facts of the two eras meet and mingle as the currents of confluent streams mix so imperceptibly that the observer cannot fix the spot where the meeting waters blend.

  27. In all eras sisters might marry the same man, and polygamy was common.

  28. In later eras the persons skilled in these various enterprises formed themselves into guilds (be), each of which carried on its own industry from generation to generation.

  29. But these conditions existed equally in the eras of Yamato-dake and Hirafu.

  30. How far the Old Norse literature has helped to form these later eras it is not easy to say, but the contributions may be counted up, and their literary value noted.

  31. Were Warton writing his history to-day, he would have to account for later eras as well as for the Elizabethan, and the method would be the same.

  32. I've seen the eras glide With muffled tread to their eternal dreams, While I have lived in vale and mountain side, With leaping torrents and sweet purling streams.

  33. My letters, I think, are rather eras than journals.

  34. As the latter sinks, and the others rise, they who live between the eras will be a sort of Noahs, witnesses to the period of the old world and origin of the new.

  35. We may not choose our time to live, not yet our time to die; but some eras are spacious above others, not length, but achievement, making an age illustrious.

  36. During the Heian and Kamakura eras this site belonged to a prominent family who constructed two temple gardens toward the close of the twelfth century in honor of Amida and his Western Paradise.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eras" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.