How to Use the millennium in a Sentence

the millennium

noun
  • And then, at the turn of the millennium, Barco looked to the big screen.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • At the turn of the millennium, the battle lines in the boy-band wars were fairly clear.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • That idea fell out of fashion around the turn of the millennium.
    Joshua D. Kertzer, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2021
  • But even for someone born at the turn of the millennium, Rapp stands out.
    Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • The Beanie Baby bubble burst right around the turn of the millennium.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
  • The turn of the millennium brought the arrival of new technologies.
    Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • But by the turn of the millennium, the numbers were faltering.
    Zachary Crockett, thehustle.co, 7 June 2024
  • By the turn of the millennium, the lucha scene in Los Angeles was on the ropes and the hallowed Olympic was on its way to becoming a church.
    Jaime Falcón, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The rapper and actor, better known as Ludacris, emerged at the dawn of the millennium.
    Gerrick Kennedy, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 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
  • Around the turn of the millennium, right-wing populist parties gained strength in Europe.
    Lars-Erik Cederman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • By the end of the millennium, quantum cryptography researchers thought that was the end of the story.
    Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 30 June 2024
  • By the end of the millennium, quantum cryptography researchers thought that was the end of the story.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2024
  • 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
  • By the turn of the millennium, a focus on patients’ pain spiraled into a glut of pills — the first wave of the U.S. opioid epidemic.
    Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The number of people exposed to a month of highly dangerous heat, even in the shade, will be four times higher in 2030 than at the turn of the millennium.
    Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda and Saiyna Bashir, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Coates launched the online website at the turn of the millennium, and since then has attracted more than 90 million customers from across the world.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The rate of Black DI head coaches has remained largely stagnant – between 20% and 25% – going back to the turn of the millennium.
    Aaron Beard, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Just for subscribers: The Trump trial of the millennium puts spotlight on his legal team.
    USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • At the beginning of the millennium, Carrie wore a giant Chanel brooch pin in the second episode of season 3.
    Heather Taylor-Singh, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
  • That’s what makes this film relevant to the millennium.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The big tech companies founded around the turn of the millennium would not exist without it.
    Noam Cohen, Wired, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But when Will took on the role almost two decades ago, stay-at-home fathers were few and far between—just 5% of fathers were stay-at-home dads at the turn of the millennium.
    Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • This was a shoppable magazine published around the turn of the millennium.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Ice’s arrival at the turbulent turn of the millennium foreshadowed how much the rapper would shake things up in such a short time.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
  • That’ll be the celebration of the millennium — followed by very, very hard work.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The study found that chytrid lived on the continent pre-2000 and then took off after the millennium and multiplied greatly.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2023
  • Born on the first day of the millennium, Ice is the oldest of five siblings and had a firsthand education in rap music in the birthplace of hip-hop.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023

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