How to use "circa" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "circa" in popular movie and book plots

  • The setting is an ancient Greek amphitheatre, circa 500BC.  - God (play)
  • On the Northwest Frontier of India, circa 1880, contact has been lost with a British outpost at Tantrapur in the midst of a telegraph message.  - Gunga Din (film)
  • The story was focused primarily on the Undertaker, who in the comic book resembled his appearance circa 1998.  - Undertaker (comics)
  • At this time, circa 1550, the Scottish Reformation is just beginning, and the monastery is in peril.  - The Monastery
  • The novel follows the journeys of three young European boys represented in a circa 1913 or 1914 photograph by August Sander.  - Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
  • In the mountainous wilds of British Columbia circa 1885, a young bear cub suffers the accidental death of his mother from a rockslide.  - The Bear (1988 film)
  • The game's sword and sorcery type story is set in Albion, Sub-Roman Britain, circa 420D.  - Chronicles of the Sword
  • by Japanese Congress) to oppose the declining birthrates of Japan, circa this period in time.  - Final Approach (visual novel)
  • The story opens circa 1980 at an abandoned chateau in the Swiss Alps, once a prestigious boarding school, L'Hirondelle.  - Lace (miniseries)
  • The film's narrative consists of several interwoven subplots taking place in the town of Northfork, Montana circa 1955.  - Northfork
  • The play and film are set in Greenwich Village circa 1982.  - Chinese Coffee
  • But to accomplish this task, they realize, he must be eliminated in a way that is period-specific to Fontaine's era: circa 1962.  - Badda-Bing Badda-Bang
  • He encounters people and events reflecting the state of the nation circa 1969.  - Rabbit Redux
  • This dig is excavating a Christian Byzantine church built circa 500D.  - Exorcist: The Beginning
  • The story in which the game is set takes place circa 2150, shortly after the destruction of Earth by an asteroid.  - Allegiance (video game)
  • In London, circa 1897, a young mouse named Olivia Flaversham is celebrating her birthday with her toymaker father, Hiram.  - The Great Mouse Detective

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