Sentence examples for Epoch from inspiring English sources
The word "epoch" is correct and commonly used in written English
"Epoch" is typically used to refer to a particular period of time that is marked by significant events or characteristics. It can also be used to describe a distinct and important stage or development in a process. For example: - The Industrial Revolution was a pivotal epoch in human history. - The fall of the Roman Empire marked the end of an epoch. - The new government promised to usher in a new epoch of prosperity and progress. - This scientific discovery is considered an epoch-making breakthrough.
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A particular period of history, especially one considered remarkable or noteworthy.
Evil as that epoch may have been, it was the product of world-views – world-views that were based on, and achieved because of science and technology.
The Iron Lady was an unforgettable personality of the past epoch of the cold war.
GONE at last, it would seem, is the epoch when Germany's banking world moved with the speed of a glacier.
Though the Cretaceous asteroid cleared the stage, mammals did not really get going until 10m years later, in the Eocene epoch.
The elder Mr Aliev encouraged foreign oil firms to explore them; his son will preside over the epoch in which exploration becomes exploitation.
Now, three years after Mr Gates's digital decade technically ended, business schools are entering their own electronic epoch.
When The Stone Roses, the epoch-making band he fronted in the late 1980s and early 1990s, fell spectacularly from grace, he was popularly considered the least likely to survive.
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But I love the Byzantine splendour of his Symphony of Psalms, the austere radiance of the Mass or the kaleidoscopic stylistic play of Agon – products of the 1930s, 40s and 50s – just as much as this epoch-making evocation of the archaic rituals of Russian spring.
79: I was leaving school and it felt suitably epoch-making.
He notes that epoch-ending political shifts, like the French and American revolutions, were motivated in large part by fiscal questions.
