Sentence examples for century of use from inspiring English sources

"A century of use, and almost no wear".

The steps of a spiral staircase have been weathered to suggest a century of use.

"It will be much lighter than it was in 2014 which had been darkened by over a century of use.

Washing the windows must be a major undertaking, and after over a century of use, there's rust forming on the iron girders.

The existing "burn building," after a quarter century of use, looks like a medieval torture chamber, with its cracked concrete floors, smashed-down steel doors and the smell of the countless fires still floating in the air.

The waiting room still looks like a waiting room, only it now offers amenities: tables, lanterns and cushions on the long, wooden benches, which, worn smooth by a century of use, are remarkably comfortable.

The name derives from a custom initiated by Gerardus Mercator in the 16th century—of using the figure of the Titan Atlas, holding the globe on his shoulders, as a frontispiece for books of maps.

Here's to half a century of uses the two inventors probably never dreamed of: wedding dresses, chocolate molds, paint applicators.

It is a skill that, if her recent Broadway fans can be trusted, seems to have lost none of its bite despite a half-century of use.

(Wellness-focussed Web sites are more likely to cite oils' centuries of use in Ayurvedic medicine).

Rackham showed us that every wood is different and that they retain natural features despite centuries of use.