Sample Sentences forepoch (editor-reviewed)
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Easter Island has passed through three epochs.epochs = a significant period of time -- such as an historical period or a unit of geological time smaller than a period and larger than an age
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"I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life." (source)epoch = significant period of time
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It must be remembered, that at that epoch the Gazette des Tribunaux was not yet in existence. (source)epoch = period of time
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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)epoch = a significant period of time
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This marked the beginning of a new epoch in the history of mankind.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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— 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)
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AFTER AN EPOCH, the week finally ends.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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When we did, after the melancholy epochs of Janet Savory and Tweedy Browner, things proceeded to fall apart.† (source)
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Epochal as starting the car was the drama of parking it before he entered his office.† (source)
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For I wanted to immerse my readers in an epoch in the life of the Dominican Republic that I believe can only finally be understood by fiction, only finally be redeemed by the imagination.† (source)
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