Examples of “decade” in a Sentence

noun A period of ten years.

• The band has been touring for over a decade.
• House prices have doubled in the last decade.
• Our village has changed a great deal over the past decade.

noun Any group or set of ten, such as a set of ten prayers counted on a rosary.

• She recited a decade of the rosary before bed.
• Grandma counted each decade on her beads as she prayed quietly.
• The group knelt together and said a decade before leaving the chapel.