Below you will find example sentences with "great depression". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Great Depression in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: depression
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "great depression" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as amidst the great depression our protagonist, as the great depression but shallower, 1929, united and states stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with great lakes, great britain, great grandchildren, clinical depression and anxiety depression, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with great depression
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Disney, for example, rose to success during the Great Depression of 1929. (12 words)
In November of 2012, it peaked at a Great Depression-like level of 28.20%. (15 words)
Even before the Great Depression, Romania had been an extremely poor country and the depression hit Romania hard. (18 words)
The work was one in a series entitled "The Rivers of America", conceived by writer Constance Lindsay Skinner in the Great Depression as a series that would connect Americans to their heritage through the history of the great rivers of the nation. (42 words)
The Austrian School asserted that the Great Depression was the result of a credit bust. citation Alan Greenspan wrote that the bank failures of the 1930s were sparked by Great Britain dropping the gold standard in 1931. (37 words)
Film historians credit the emotional impact of the Great Depression as one reason for the screwball comedy's unplanned rise, and cite the 1934 films It Happened One Night as igniting a firestorm of inventive imitators. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Great Depression main The Great Depression originated in the United States in late 1929 and quickly spread to the world.
The Great Depression and worker protests The Great Depression caused sugar prices to slump in 1929 and led to the return of many Jamaicans.
Even before the Great Depression, Romania had been an extremely poor country and the depression hit Romania hard.
Starting with the adoption of the gold standard in Britain and the United States, the Long Depression (1873–1896) was indeed longer than what is now referred to as the Great Depression, but shallower.
Using the second definition of depression, most economists refer to the Great Depression, as the period between 1929 and 1941.
Parallels are being drawn with the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the great financial Tsunami that led to the Great Depression.
The Austrian School asserted that the Great Depression was the result of a credit bust. citation Alan Greenspan wrote that the bank failures of the 1930s were sparked by Great Britain dropping the gold standard in 1931.
The work was one in a series entitled "The Rivers of America", conceived by writer Constance Lindsay Skinner in the Great Depression as a series that would connect Americans to their heritage through the history of the great rivers of the nation.
Back in 2011, we were in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and unemployment was historically high.
Disney, for example, rose to success during the Great Depression of 1929.
Film historians credit the emotional impact of the Great Depression as one reason for the screwball comedy's unplanned rise, and cite the 1934 films It Happened One Night as igniting a firestorm of inventive imitators.
In November of 2012, it peaked at a Great Depression-like level of 28.20%.
Inside are four murals by Paul Wesley Arndt, who belonged to the Woodstock Artists Association during the Great Depression, when many local artists were employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the Federal Arts Project.
I was born in February 1925 and grew up with my parents and brother and sister during the Great Depression.
Leveraged speculation played momentous roles both in the "Roaring Twenties" boom and the subsequent crash and Great Depression.
Many members fought in World War II and lived through the Great Depression — feats that some believe makes them “the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
No one knows when the next bear market will be the Great Depression 2. Good luck to you.
Set in the 1930s amidst the Great Depression, our protagonist is bitten by a spider when examining a stolen relic, causing him to pass out and see visions of a Spider-God who grants him powers.
That was as close as we have come since the Great Depression to a meltdown of the entire financial system.
The film follows Hanks, a mob boss enforcer during The Great Depression, setting out on a journey of revenge alongside his son.