How to use "century" in a sentence

He and his men stole horses and hid from the law during the last years of the nineteenth century.

For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

In the health-obsessed final decade of the century, eating fatty foods was widely regarded as a far more delicious - and more damning - sin than envy, sloth, thievery, and adultery.

The story was set in the mid-nineteenth century, when a physician's perception of the thin line between life and death was often cloudy

Furthermore, this was not the mid-nineteenth century; these days, doctors could detect even the vaguest heartbeat, the shallowest respiration, the dimmest traces of brain-wave activity.

A tiny model of a seventeenth-century Dutch pinnace was perpetually under sail in a small, pale-blue bottle

Here was a four-masted barkentine with sails taut in a perpetual wind; and here was a mid-sixteenth-century Swedish kravel

A fifteenth-century Spanish caravel

Kennebeck stood before one of the display cases, studying the minutely detailed rigging of a late-eighteenth-century French frigate

There's some wonderful old silver at Old Hall, including a seventeenth century tazza

'Colonel Protheroe's seventeenth century tazza!' Miss Marple cried.

In the last years of the nineteenth century, no one believed that this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than our own

And early in the twentieth century, the great shock came.

But people are so blind that no writer, before the end of the nineteenth century, suggested that much more intelligent life had developed there than on Earth

In 18th-century Russia, for example, Catherine the Great believed in education for everyone.

The fight that Mary Wollstonecraft started in the late 18th century is still not finished

It started in the 19th century and continued into the 20th century

In 1999, Time magazine called Emmeline Pankhurst one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century

What about today? In the 20th century, women in many countries fought for the vote and got it

Women in northern Europe and in places like the United Kingdom, the USA and Australia were all fighting for the vote in the last years of the 1890s and the early years of the 20th century.

The second wave of feminism arrived in the middle of the 20th century

Later in the 20th century, writers like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem from the USA and Germaine Greer from Australia continued Simone's work

But, in the 20th century, women started to study and work in science more and more

One of the big names of the 20th century was a woman from Poland named Marie Curie

Later in the 20th century, there were more women in science, and some of them did very important work

We know that, in many countries, women started to get the vote in the first years of the 20th century

In the 20th century, women made some progress in this fight.

The 20th century and the first part of the 21st century have seen big steps for women in politics

The modern history of women in sport started in the 19th century

In the 21st century, women are stronger and braver than ever