Sentence examples for passing centuries from inspiring English sources

And did you always know, or sometimes doubt That passing centuries would bear you out?

The buffet may have improved with the passing centuries, but many Americans today aren't enjoying vacations any more than the Romans did.

Timeless yet timeworn, grand but intimate, oblivious to the passing centuries even as the jungle devours its huge stone walls, Angkor Wat and the scores of temples that surround it hint at eternity, only to remind us that nothing is eternal.

I am the least among equals, an ordinary scribe, raising my arms at the passing centuries, a pleasant stationmaster making no grab for glory.

Vines and creepers grow through the stone; the jungle and the temple become more closely entwined with each passing century.

On the last day of 1999, Time magazine selected Strange Fruit as its choice for the best song of the passing century.

They pass the centuries with regular committee meetings, book-clubs and ginger biscuit feasts ("no other biscuit makes a ghost feel more alive").

Walk around Beijing's remaining old neighbourhoods – known for their maze of narrow alleyways, or hutongs – and you will pass by centuries' worth of history.

He went 34 innings between centuries, passing 50 on 10 occasions in that time.

Long, dark stains pour down the steel walls that tower above you, redolent of centuries passing, history happening, life ticking.

In the previous two centuries, passing sailors had plundered the tortoises to use as food on their long voyages.