"decade" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

decade sustantivo

sustantivo + decade
Kolokacji: 16
decade of one's life • decade of experience • decade of one's existence • decade of war • decade of rule • ...
decade + verbo
Kolokacji: 35
decade sees • decade passes • decade begins • decade ends • decade working • ...
verbo + decade
Kolokacji: 81
take decades • last decades • make in the decade • end several decades • dominate for decades • spend a decade • use for decades • ...
adjetivo + decade
Kolokacji: 38
past decade • recent decade • early decade • previous decade • subsequent decade • final decade • new decade • later decade • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
1. full decade = pełne dekada full decade
2. entire decade = całe dekada entire decade
3. good decade = dobre dekada good decade
4. whole decade = całe dekada whole decade
5. dishonest decade = nieuczciwe dekada dishonest decade
  • Auden's description of the Thirties, sitting in a bar in New York in September 1939, as a 'low dishonest decade' at least deglamorizes it.
  • Hitler appears in 1923, and looms larger as the diary enters Auden's "low dishonest decade."
  • In one of W. H. Auden's brilliant poems, "September 1, 1939," he called the 1930's "a low dishonest decade."
  • How do you reflect on the lives lost and the lies told in the course of what Pankaj Mishra calls our "low, dishonest decade"?
  • He lived in Germany and he wrote in Paris, where he died of alcoholism in 1939 at the end of that "low, dishonest decade."
  • So this was by no means entirely, as Auden described it, a "low, dishonest decade".
  • But his overriding message was that after "a dishonest decade" of the Clinton-Gore Administration, he would restore values to the White House.
  • Fast-forward to our own low, dishonest decade.
  • Its opening lines certainly speak to this anxious age: "I sit in one of the dives/On Fifty-second Street/Uncertain and afraid/As the clever hopes expire/Of a low dishonest decade."
  • Some have even likened it to another poet's corrosive assessment of politics at another time - W.H. Auden's description of the 1930's as "a low dishonest decade."
(6) different, single, formative
Kolokacji: 3
(7) turbulent, tumultuous
Kolokacji: 2
(8) long, European
Kolokacji: 2
(9) post-war, tactical
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + decade
Kolokacji: 24
for decades • after decades • by decades • from decades • until the decade • ...

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