MILLENNIUM in a Sentence

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The ritual, which has taken place for more than half a millennium, is believed to make the children grow up healthy and strong.

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 Meanings and Examples of MILLENNIUM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
millennium
 n.  span of one thousand years; thousandth anniversary
Classic Sentence:
1  My mother used to tell me of a millennium that was coming, when Christ should reign, and all men should be free and happy.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  Why, six months ago you would have thought it the millennium to have a flower shop of your own.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
Example Sentence:
1  The turn of the millennium has impelled some scientists to predict a fantastic future.
2  The year 2000 and the third millennium is a fantastic stepping stone in the evolution of the human species.
3  The minister made a grand and moving picture of the assembling together of the world's hosts at the millennium when the lion and the lamb should lie down together and a little child should lead them.
4  Professor Hawking says that in the coming millennium genetic engineering will succeed in making human beings more intelligent, with larger brains.
5  The ritual, which has taken place for more than half a millennium, is believed to make the children grow up healthy and strong.
6  As we start the new millennium the only certainty is change, and lots of it.
7  With an outsize extravaganza that reached deep into the repertory of classical music and ballet, traversed the sights and sounds of the world's largest geopolitical expanse, soared into outer space and swept across millenniums of history in a celebration of everything from czarist military might to Soviet monumentalism, a swaggering, resurgent Russia turned its Winter Olympic aspirations into reality on Friday night.