How to Use millennium in a Sentence

millennium

noun
  • 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.
  • For millennia, the metal has adorned crowns and hilts of swords.
    — Puja Bhattacharjee, CNN, 13 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • At the time, people were on the cusp of a new millennium.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • At the turn of the millennium, the tech frenzy was still new.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • For millennia the aurochs had turned grass into meat for us hunters.
    — Bob Gathany, AL.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Before that, tribes had fished and traded on the site for millennia.
    — oregonlive.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Its end would be the news of the century, if not the millennium.
    — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Each has appeared on local roads since the turn of the millennium.
    — Edward Niedermeyer, Ars Technica, 11 July 2018
  • That’s up from zero branches at the dawn of the new millennium.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
  • Will the once-in-a-millennium pope emeritus be buried in them, too?
    — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
  • But the new finding shows that even millennia apart, cities face the same problems of making roads work.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2019
  • Old trees may have grown through entire millennia that were wetter than the past 20 years.
    — Alana Chin, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, the earth has shifted position over the last two millennia!
    — Quispe López, Them., 9 Sep. 2025
  • For millennia, these markets had been a critical part of the daily life of the city.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • The new millennium saw a variety of up-and-comers added to the fold.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 17 June 2024
  • This is almost certainly one of the few times this millennium that the light of day has bathed these pieces.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • The Catholic Church has lasted two millennia.
    — Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • By that math, Bezos would have more than two millennia before needing to turn out the lights.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The new millennium brought steady gains, save for a few bumps in the road, before the pandemic hit.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
  • What’s inarguable is that the outbreak has occurred since the turn of the millennium.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • But the Dolphins have reached the playoffs just six times this millennium.
    — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
  • But harsher challenges would present in the new millennium.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The remake would become her first single of the new millennium.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
  • But there have literally been billions of people over the past two millennia who would have liked to know this.
    — JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This was the raging debate stretching across all the colonies a quarter of a millennium ago.
    — Michael Golden, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Strains of Cannabis sativa have been used for millennia to produce rope and textiles from the stalks and oil from the seeds.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
  • Are star-hopping and sword making in the same category, just a few millennia apart?
    — Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The prized resin was burned for a millennium and a half in temples from Persia to Rome.
    — Andrew Lawler, Science | AAAS, 10 Apr. 2018

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