How to Use sesquicentennial in a Sentence

sesquicentennial

noun
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  • The sesquicentennial of the Alaska Purchase has come and gone.
    — Steve Haycox, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Nov. 2017
  • And, more than ever before, the public will have that chance as the world marks Wrights' birthday sesquicentennial.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 23 May 2017
  • While the new coin is a cool way to celebrate the sesquicentennial, there’s another reason for vaunting the coin-tech.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 June 2017
  • There's also a time capsule near Lake George that was buried in 2006 in celebration of the city's sesquicentennial.
    — Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • Wise led an effort to paint murals on the bridge for Sugar Land's celebrations of the Texas sesquicentennial in 1986.
    — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Hard Hittin’ Lemonade, to mark the sesquicentennial of the incorporation of New Britain as a city.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 19 July 2021
  • Aside from the Tribune’s sesquicentennial, there was a lot to celebrate in those years, especially on the city’s sports scene, as Paul Sullivan notes.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • Both stories are shared on a blog (www.redwoodcityhistory.org/blog) the city created to celebrate its sesquicentennial.
    — Kevin Kelly, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017
  • This includes Wyoming's fight for women's suffrage—the state is celebrating the sesquicentennial of the Territory of Wyoming giving women the right to vote in 1869.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian, 6 June 2019
  • Vogue is only 22 years younger than the Met, which is celebrating its sesquicentennial.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Kevin Costner is your guide in this new four-part special marking the sesquicentennial of Yellowstone National Park.
    — cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Kevin Costner is your guide in this new four-part special marking the sesquicentennial of Yellowstone National Park.
    — cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Founded in 1873, the city celebrates its sesquicentennial this year.
    — Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Then, in 1987, Washington sponsored another year’s worth of events for the sesquicentennial of Chicago becoming a city, complete with a birthday cake.
    — Liam Ford, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Curry may return to Utah next year to celebrate St. Mark's Cathedral's sesquicentennial.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 July 2021
  • This year’s event lighting the sky atop Red Mountain coincides with Birmingham’s sesquicentennial.
    — al, 5 May 2021
  • The collective narrative that emerged by the end of the sesquicentennial would have been unidentifiable to white Richmonders who experienced the centennial in the early 1960s.
    — Kevin M. Levin, Smithsonian, 18 May 2017
  • The collective narrative that emerged by the end of the sesquicentennial would have been unidentifiable to white Richmonders who experienced the centennial in the early 1960s.
    — Kevin M. Levin, Smithsonian, 18 May 2017
  • Still, many who love Yosemite have taken its sesquicentennial as an opportunity to continue improving upon the park.
    — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 30 June 2014
  • During the Civil War sesquicentennial, the Encyclopedia of Arkansas was working on articles about small skirmishes around the state.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The historic university, celebrating its sesquicentennial, awarded 2,173 degrees, all stories of achievement, and no doubt many of them threaded with tales of sacrifice and struggle, of overcoming great odds.
    — Marcia Davis, Washington Post, 14 May 2017
  • But so far no similar celebrations have followed to mark the sesquicentennials of Reconstruction.
    — Allen Guelzo, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
  • To celebrate the sesquicentennial, Orchard House will host many events, including a conversational series to discuss the book’s modern-day relevance.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • The festival in its current iteration began to take shape in 1968, according to the chamber, when village officials organized an event over the Labor Day weekend that year to celebrate Illinois' sesquicentennial.
    — Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In addition to celebrating college football’s sesquicentennial, the Sooners are marking their 125th season this year.
    — Paul Lukas, SI.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • And already, the historical society is thinking ahead to how to celebrate Dundalk's sesquicentennial.
    — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 28 May 2017

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