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Example sentences for "nineties"

Lexicographically close words:
niners; nines; nineteen; nineteene; nineteenth; ninetieth; ninety; ninfa; ning; nings
  1. He never looks back to the strenuous 'nineties on the County Council without being thankful.

  2. The most successful scheme for relieving distress with which Crooks was associated in the severe winters of the early 'nineties was one on which a dozen years later the Unemployed Act was based.

  3. She was of the mid nineties which saw the triumph of the nature school.

  4. The later eighties and the nineties are the period of the bird books.

  5. Literature even into the mid-nineties had been feminine rather than masculine, he averred.

  6. The last period began in a general way at the opening of the nineties with the publication, perhaps, of A Hazard of New Fortunes.

  7. The noble owner had remained in ignorance of its value until in the nineties an enterprising critic discovered that a Spanish painter named Goya was a genius.

  8. One year in the early nineties the Thompson presented a strange sight to travellers in the Canadian Pacific trains, though as the trains pass this part in the very early morning probably few saw it.

  9. FitzGerald and Sir Richard Musgrave, who made an expedition to these waters in the early nineties and camped at the mouth of Campbell River, also trying Salmon River and other places along the coast.

  10. The eighteen nineties will lie in their path, blocking the way like an unhealthy moat, which some myopes might almost mistake for an aquarium.

  11. The literary movement of the eighteen nineties was like a strong stimulant given to a patient dying of old age.

  12. Wells set off in the nineties in a world encouragingly full of talk about good writing.

  13. I had now met all those who were to make the 'nineties of the last century tragic in the history of literature, but as yet we were all seemingly equal, whether in talent or in luck, and scarce even personalties to one another.

  14. By the end of the nineties the Jewish country population of Russia had been considerably reduced.

  15. Neither the pogroms at the beginning of the eighties, nor the Moscow atrocities at the beginning of the nineties can compare, in their soul-stirring effect upon Russian Jewry, with the massacre of Kishinev.

  16. The middle of the nineties saw the ripening of the mighty talent of Hayyim Nahman Bialik, who brought the poetical forms of ancient Hebrew speech to unprecedented perfection.

  17. The nineties inaugurate systematic efforts directed toward the elucidation of the history of the Jews in Russia and Poland.

  18. The apathy and faint-heartedness which had characterized public Jewish life during the eighties and the first half of the nineties was followed by a period of noisy bustle, of organizing activity, and of great animation.

  19. At the end of the nineties the Russian horizon was darkened again by the ominous shadow of the beginning of the eighties: pogroms, at first sporadic and within circumscribed limits, broke out again in various parts of the Pale.

  20. During the eighties and nineties the process of disintegration continued, and there came to be a half-dozen socialist parties, besides numerous local groups of independents.

  21. In the middle of the nineties some attempts were made to create and maintain homogeneous ministries.

  22. In the later nineties there arose two problems, neither entirely new, which were destined long to occupy the attention of the Government almost to the exclusion of all things else.

  23. But the artist, who in the Nineties had held the Metropolitan Opera House stage with honour in the great dramatic rĂ´les, had very little to offer in her last years.

  24. In the latter nineties the prominence of the Daimler Works as vehicle makers, distinguished from motor makers, again began to be noticed and soon their now famous Mercedes cars appeared.

  25. By the middle nineties the veto had been virtually abandoned.

  26. In the 'nineties her dominions extended from the Mediterranean to the Guinea Coast, and she had conceived the ambition of extending them also across Africa from West to East.

  27. In the 'nineties there seemed also to be hope in South Africa, where use might be made of the strained relations between Britain and the Boer Republics.

  28. During the 'nineties the partition of the Pacific Islands was completed; the chief participators being Germany, Britain, and the United States of America.

  29. In the early nineties Henry Drummond was what they call "one of the best sellers.

  30. About the beginning of the eighteen-nineties workmen were widening and lowering the road which skirts Farringford and the Briary, and gives an entrance to the rear of Weston Manor.

  31. The official statement of the shippers’ side of the case in this lively conflict of the nineties has been compiled and published.

  32. The bloody strikes at Homestead, Coeur d'Alene, Buffalo, and Pullman in the eighties and early nineties moved the country as no preachments of abstract socialist philosophy could ever have done.

  33. The country recovered from the collapse of the nineties and entered with full swing into another era of inflation and promotion.

  34. Sopotsko, at one time in the beginning of the Nineties shared some of Tolstoi's views in relation to the outer life, but never understood the essence of his religious philosophy.

  35. In the eighties and nineties the Tolstois went yearly from Yasnaya Polyana to Moscow to spend the winter.

  36. In the Nineties he issued a magazine in Budapest: Die Religion des Geistes, and a newspaper with a Christian anarchical tendency: Ohne Staat.

  37. In the later nineties city journalism was reorganized under the influence of the "yellow" papers, and sensational news was made a profitable commodity as never before.

  38. Depression in the later eighties and the early nineties intensified the suffering of the debtor class and produced an inflation movement that allied the South and West in the demand for cheaper money and more of it.

  39. The new subjects which he offered at Harvard during the nineties are indicative of the directions in which his mind was moving.

  40. If his time and energy had not been otherwise consumed, the nineties might well have witnessed the appearance of papers which were not written until the next decade.

  41. But there is another aspect of the nineties which must be touched upon.

  42. Short holidays, or intervals in college lecturing, were often employed for writing in this way, the longer vacations of the latter nineties being filled, as has been said, with traveling and lecture engagements.

  43. Accordingly, he was an elderly man in the eighties and early nineties when golden keys began to open the doors of the most sacrosanct circles.

  44. By the mid-nineties it was hoped that a large nucleus of Germanophile Belgians and Dutch would be preparing for the easy (and perhaps peaceful) conquest of the Low Countries.

  45. But the case is different with the two volumes published by Mr. Matthews in the early nineties under respectively the title and subtitle now given to their contents combined in one and made once more accessible to the reading public.


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