Sentence examples for defined the decade from inspiring English sources

No designer defined the decade with more giddy authority.

Osama bin Laden's story has defined the decade and, without doubt, will define the century.

The second Daft Punk album, "Discovery," has already defined the decade; we don't need to wait for history's verdict.

He and his then-girlfriend and collaborator Chloë Sevigny occupied a bubble of cult cool that defined the decade.

"When," as playwright Nick Dear once asked, "did you hear a musical with surprising opinions?" And the shows that defined the decade were Cats (1981), Starlight Express (1984), Les Misérables (1985) and The Phantom of the Opera (1986).

People were waiting for the presentation of the first annual Lava Lamp Achievement Awards to be given to people who had defined the decade for the rest of us.

The change in our attitude to children – how we parent them, our expectations for them, our love for them – has defined the decades this side of the Second World War.

Indeed TV shows defined the decades we grew up in and watching them was a wonderful way to pass the time in a world free of computers, smartphones and Xboxes.

From The New Yorker's archive, pieces about the art and culture that helped define the decade.

In the 1980s we had Yuppies – wealthy and vulgar young professionals whose excesses came to define the decade.

It's topped the US box office for the past fortnight, been hailed as the film that defines the decade, and is a shoo-in for Oscar nods.