How to Use millennium in a Sentence

millennium

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  • The book describes the changes that have occurred in the landscape over many millennia.
  • The year 2000 was celebrated as the beginning of the third millennium.
  • But a lot can happen to a work of art over the course of half a millennium.
    — Christopher Knight, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • In the seventh millennium BCE, things went wonky for a while.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • It’s set entirely in a high-end hotel in Gstaad on the eve of the new millennium, and takes place over the course of 24 hours.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Motya was a bustling port during the first millennium BC.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
  • But the Dolphins have reached the playoffs just six times this millennium.
    — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The idea for adding a day to the year to account for Earth's imperfect rotation around the Sun has been around for millennia.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Will the once-in-a-millennium pope emeritus be buried in them, too?
    — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Hang with the Elk This was their land for millennia, but overhunting and loss of habitat wiped elk from the landscape.
    — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • Rideau: The 2000s brought in a sense of calmness in the new millennium, such as light brown, tan, and, near the coast, shades of white, blue, and blue-gray were very popular.
    — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 23 June 2023
  • Two powerhouse singers who got their start at the dawn of the new millennium will bring their award-winning chops to the Hard Rock Live in Gary.
    — Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
  • In fact, the new millennium had prompted a surge in overstyled—and colored—looks.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 9 Sep. 2022
  • For New Year's Eve 1999, the ball was replaced again to celebrate the new millennium.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • What is known is that dogs and humans have lived and worked together for millennia.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And in the past decades, these four have taken their sound around the globe through countless tours and millennium-defying hits.
    — Kenan Draughornestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Mean Girls captured the chaotic essence of the new millennium maybe more than any other form of media.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Benedictine is a French liqueur that's been around half a millennium.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • The most significant of these took place in the middle centuries of that millennium.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • He was hailed in the leftist press as the leading theorist of the new millennium, the first person to describe the emergence of a new form of society.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • For almost all of this millennium, women who read spent more time with books than male readers did.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Clooney, it must be known, was doing cowl necklines and slinky cuts way before the Blumarine revival sparked the millennium bug.
    — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 13 July 2022
  • At the dawn of the new millennium, however, the mayor, Francisco de la Torre, took steps to reverse the decline.
    — Lisa Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The dessert bursts with rich flavor, complex texture and millennia of meaning.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • And success, whatever that would come to mean in the new millennium, was a shifting metric.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • For more than a millennium, women were barred from schools and academies.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2023
  • Central Chile is 13 years into its longest drought in at least a millennium.
    — Maite Fernández Simon, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
  • But by the start of the new millennium, other pursuits started pulling them away from being full-time musicians.
    — Robert Ham, SPIN, 12 Jan. 2023
  • For centuries, even millennia, workers have used ropes and pulleys to lift pipes and planks to assemble scaffolds on the outside of buildings.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Some aspects of the ceremony are more than a millennium old.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 May 2023

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