How to Use the millennium in a Sentence

the millennium

noun
  • That idea fell out of fashion around the turn of the millennium.
    — Joshua D. Kertzer, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2021
  • It's been their greatest three-year run since the turn of the millennium.
    — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Like many who grew up at the dawn of the millennium, Apelian has read a lot of it.
    — Liz Ohanesian, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
  • And the time for them is right, what with the current love of all things from the turn of the millennium.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Just 5% of fathers were stay-at-home dads at the turn of the millennium.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2025
  • But even for someone born at the turn of the millennium, Rapp stands out.
    — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • At the turn of the millennium, the battle lines in the boy-band wars were fairly clear.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And then, at the turn of the millennium, Barco looked to the big screen.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • The end of the millennium was not unkind to Hart.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Dec. 2025
  • By the turn of the millennium, optimism about this project had dimmed.
    — Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The release date here does include the turn of the millennium.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
  • But by the turn of the millennium, with the rise in casual work wear, most men no longer had to buy a suit.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, house prices have increased more than twice as fast as income has since the turn of the millennium.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
  • The turn of the millennium is when vodka was at the apex of its cultural power.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2026
  • At the turn of the millennium, the business world braced for disaster.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But by the turn of the millennium, the numbers were faltering.
    — Zachary Crockett, thehustle.co, 7 June 2024
  • The turn of the millennium brought the arrival of new technologies.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • At the turn of the millennium, a new Andean myth emerges in the city of Cusco.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
  • A lot of the most somber music at the turn of the millennium was moving in its lo-fi recording quality.
    — Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This year’s theme is more tightly focused on the beginning of the millennium.
    — Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Beanie Baby bubble burst right around the turn of the millennium.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
  • Around the turn of the millennium, right-wing populist parties gained strength in Europe.
    — Lars-Erik Cederman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • The big tech companies founded around the turn of the millennium would not exist without it.
    — Noam Cohen, Wired, 5 Nov. 2021
  • This was right after the turn of the millennium, well before the crash in 2008.
    — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • After all, Spears was one of many wildly successful pop acts to emerge at the turn of the millennium.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 16 May 2025
  • He's been an astronaut and ice skater, and even donned a crown for the millennium in 2000.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The emergence of this aesthetic at the turn of the millennium was not arbitrary.
    — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The tech firm’s stock collapsed at the turn of the millennium, plummeting more than 80%.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The rapper and actor, better known as Ludacris, emerged at the dawn of the millennium.
    — Gerrick Kennedy, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Around the turn of the millennium, Earth’s spin started going off-kilter, and nobody could quite say why.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 28 June 2023

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