epoch

in a sentence

It must be remembered, that at that epoch the Gazette des Tribunaux was not yet in existence.  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

It is almost the only one of which it may be said that it points the way to a new epoch in a large area of our national life.  (source) Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery: An Autobiography, 1901

It was an epoch-making event, said Richard.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

As an archeologist, when Thomsen divided the ages of man into Stone, Bronze, and Iron, naturally enough, he did so in accordance with the physical tools that defined each epoch.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

What I think of is our babyhoods perched thoughtlessly on the filmiest net of the modern world, over layers of rock, Wisconsin till, Mississippian carbonate, Devonian limestone, layers of dark epochs, and we seem not so much in danger (my father checked the grates often) as fleeting, as if our lives simply passed then, and this memory is the only photograph of some nameless and unknown children who may have lived and may have died, but at any rate have vanished into the black well of time.†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

— 42 As Hiro crests the pass on his motorcycle at five in the morning, the town of Port Sherman, Oregon, is suddenly laid out before him: a flash of yellow loglo wrapped into a vast U-shaped valley that was ground out of the rock, a long time ago, by a big tongue of ice in an epochal period of geological cunnilingus.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

"In terms of prophecy," Teabing said, "we are currently in an epoch of enormous change.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Because we are part of that one tenth of one tenth of one percent of the Hegemony's citizens who travel between the stars rather than along the Web, we represent odd epochs of our own recent past.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

Because when she died of murder on their wedding night, it was crucial that all Florin realize the depth of his love, the epochal size of his loss, since then no one would dare hesitate to follow him in the revenge war he was to launch against Guilder.†  (source) William Goldman, The Princess Bride, 1973

On November 22, 1963, I had just confused the Paleocene epoch with the Pleistocene, and I was further confused by the difference between an epoch and an era.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

"And I'm ashamed to say," said the Lady of Diamonds, "that we Diamonds, a titled family dating back to the earliest epochs, were treated the most poorly by the former queen."†  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

But when he came back late at night, the magic had all but abandoned his face and his step, the aura was gone, the lilt, and I could smell the animal of him as he walked past my bedroom door in the short hall, the stink of sweat and ruined vegetables and the ashen city penetrating me like an epochal sickness.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

They were achingly beautiful, these ghostly cities — New York, Rio, Shanghai, Paris—under their stains of stars, images as though from an epoch before electricity, but with the buildings of today.†  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017