Jazz Age
Example Sentences
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Controversy at the Smithsonian, a Jazz Age caper from Thomas Pynchon, Rome’s long history and more.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
Chicagoans referred to the neighborhood as “Towertown,” and it was where writers, artists, communist revolutionaries and queer folks often lived and even more frequently partied during Chicago’s rowdy Jazz Age.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025
Recently he seemed to suggest that the Jazz Age gangster Al Capone was still alive.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2024
The staging, which can seem cluttered and breathless in the early going, traipses through these seedy locales with a theatrical swiftness that captures the milieu that bred the syncopated rhythm of the Jazz Age.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024
It was the start of the Jazz Age.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
