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

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

  • The younger generation adapts easily to the more traditional world.  - Earth Abides
  • Navy Captain Rockwell "Rock" Torrey, a divorced "second generation Navy" son of a career Chief Petty Officer.  - In Harm's Way
  • A new generation of dinosaurs hatches sometime later, along with Aladar and Neera's children.  - Dinosaur (film)
  • It was the fourth generation of Morituri who saw a real change to the process.  - Strikeforce: Morituri
  • Allanon returned to the world due to the presence of a new evil, and once more he needed the aid of another generation of Ohmsfords.  - The Wishsong of Shannara
  • Later in the episode, Kevin Dobson's character Crocker asks about the lollipop and Kojak replies, "I'm looking to close the generation gap".  - Kojak
  • A new generation of superheroes, led by Captain Comet, is born and Quick looks forward to "a new age, as pure as sterling silver".  - The Golden Age (comics)
  • The mantle of Turok is passed down every generation to the eldest male.  - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
  • Garou: Mark of the Wolves takes place a generation later.  - Fatal Fury (series)
  • This event also sees the introduction of the more powerful Super Zeozords, which were used against a tougher generation of machines.  - Power Rangers Zeo
  • Every time a generation or epoch moves deeper within these realms, another follows behind them, entering the realm they have vacated.  - Little, Big
  • Renewed conflict breaks out after a generation of peace in this continuation of the "Mobile Suit Gundam" anime saga.  - Mobile Suit Gundam F91
  • One of the accepted hydropathy scales is that of Kyte and Doolittle which relies on the generation of hydropathy plots.  - Hexokinase
  • Duncan Makenzie is the latest generation of the 'first family' of Titan, a colonised moon of Saturn.  - Imperial Earth
  • But a new generation of humans born on Mars holds the promise of change.  - Mars trilogy
  • It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped (its) shells, were destroyed by the war".  - All Quiet on the Western Front

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