Definition: 1. All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age. 2. Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent. 3. The normal time between successive generations. 4. A stage of technological development or innovation.
Use 'generation' in a sentence:
1. My family have lived in this house for generations.
2. The present leaders have to decide whether to hand over to a younger generation.
3. Overtime is not attractive to this generation.
4. Japan has announced plans for a sharp rise in its nuclear power generation.
5. Everyone thinks there is some vast conspiracy wanting to hold down the younger generation.
6. Within a generation, flight has become the method used by many travellers.
7. They are a lost generation in search of an identity.
8. Why only pass this to the young generation?
9. She had taken up the cause of a generation of American youth.
10. This generation has lost a lot of its wide-eyed innocence.
11. The play represents the collision of three generations.
12. He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.
13. He was a beacon of hope for the younger generation.
14. That's a big change from the previous generation.
15. She is a first generation American.
16. Within a generation flight has become the method used by many travellers.
17. With audiences in the U.S. falling for the first time in a generation, Hollywood is girding itself for recession.
18. Zidane has become the poster child for a whole generation of French-born youths of North African extraction.
19. A new generation of scientists became fascinated by dinosaurs.
20. These personality traits get passed on from generation to generation.
21. He is arguably the best actor of his generation.
22. The house had belonged to her family for three or four generations.
23. Manufacturers are working on a new generation of cheaper digital radios.
24. People of my generation who lived through World War II have vivid memories of confusion and incompetence.
25. Failing to tackle the deficit would be throwing away an opportunity we haven't had for a generation.
26. The story captured the hearts and minds of a generation.
27. First-generation Americans view the United States as a land of golden opportunity.
28. He launched a bitter diatribe against the younger generation.
29. Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation.
30. This challenge will occupy Europe for a generation or more.
31. In the 1960s, the electric guitar virtuosity of Jimi Hendrix inspired a generation.
32. The singer is regarded as a representative of the youth of her generation.
33. She was one of the best tennis players of her generation.
34. Future generations are going to think that we were a pretty boring lot.
35. Family photos spanning five generations were stolen.
36. This painting has been in our family for generations.
37. How can we best serve the needs of future generations?
38. Ours could well be the last generation for which moviegoing has a sense of magic.
39. Natural resources should be handed on to the next generation intact.
40. Future generations will be left with a legacy of pollution and destruction.
41. She has inspired a whole generation of fashion school graduates.
42. Natural selection ensures only the fittest survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
43. A generation ago, it was thought that babies born this small could not survive.
44. Each generation passes through a similar parade of events.
45. The power-generation plant belched out five tons of ash an hour.
46. Social customs provide a vital link between generations.
47. I often wonder what future generations will make of our efforts.
48. She was one of the greatest minds of her generation.
49. My generation have grown up without the experience of a world war.
