How to Use golden age in a Sentence

golden age

noun
  • From the wrecks, to the riots, to a golden age and beyond.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In 2017, Christopher Orr declared the Pixar golden age over and done with in the pages of the ...
    Ross Douthat, National Review, 23 June 2022
  • To a lot of country fans, the early 1990s was the golden age of the format.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
  • This is the golden age of gummies, and that can seem like a great thing.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The bullpen was the Detroit Tigers' Achilles heel during the club's golden age last decade.
    Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Of course, even in the golden age of AOL, few people wrote such e-mails.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Only time will tell if the Merge catalyzes a golden age for Ethereum that lasts for the long haul.
    Taylor Locke, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The vintage-look Atari 2600 Plus is a throwback to the golden age of video gaming.
    Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2023
  • So that was the spark of the idea: Keanu and Winona, but enemies-to-lovers in the golden age of Hollywood.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The studio system was a golden age for movies based on the numbers alone.
    Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 5 Dec. 2022
  • But it can all be traced back to the early aughts, the golden age of men’s jewelry.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2022
  • In the golden age, an arcade machine could cost around $5,000.
    Irving Mejia-Hilario, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • It could just be accepted that the end of 2022 was the golden age of fantasy, and that’s that.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The 20th century was the string quartet’s great golden age.
    David Mermelstein, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
  • That photo was used in Esquire Magazine to mark the end of the golden age of jazz.
    Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • But the majority of songs are from the ’50s through ’70s, a golden age for rock, pop, soul and country.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Aug. 2022
  • That was in 1950, in the midst of an era that would soon be remembered as its own larger-than-life golden age.
    A.o. Scott, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The throwaway diversion is nothing new in the world of movies, though the era of content may very well be its golden age.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • And yet the late fifties and early sixties were also a kind of golden age for earnest, out-in-the-open exploration of psychedelics.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Around the 1880s, a golden age of saws dawned with the wide availability of more durable and flexible steel.
    Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Kalki is a kind of savior who will come to end bad times and punish the wicked, ushering in a new golden age for the world.
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Right about now, to be perfectly honest, this feels like a fool’s golden age.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • For fans of the genre’s ’90s golden age, the big news was just how many first-wave artists returned with new material this year.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Piet Levy Milwaukee's hip-hop scene has reached a golden age.
    Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The first golden age of Athenian tourism occurred around 435 B.C., when culture-lovers from around the Greek world flocked to the city at the peak of its glory.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • That a second term may make his first seem like a golden age of democracy.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The first half of the film, rooted in the ’70s and the L.A. history of a golden age in music, is especially strong and flowing.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2023
  • And that also coincided with the golden age of home video, as well.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022
  • Column: The 1960s were the golden age of political thrillers.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Now, more than 25 years after his death at 89, the former leading man of Hollywood’s golden age is back to brag on the city again.
    Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023

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