Hundred Days

noun

(usually used with a plural verb)

1. the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.

2. a special session of Congress from March 9, 1933 to June 16, 1933, called by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which important social legislation was enacted.

hundred days

plural noun

1. French history the period between Napoleon Bonaparte's arrival in Paris from Elba on March 20, 1815, and his abdication on June 29, 1815

Example Sentences

Let’s say you come back in a hundred days, we sit down here and you say this was our goals and this is what we achieved in the House.

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"Those first hundred days are going to be absolutely vital to force the nasty cough medicine down the country's throat."

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Then, a little more than a hundred days on, during his first foreign tour – which took him to three wealthy Arab states – he boasted that he was making good on that vow.

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He wants to avoid, “a commemoration that doesn’t recognize the parallels between what was happening in 1775 and some of the things we’ve seen in the first hundred days of Trump.”

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“The numbers, historically, kind of speak for themselves — they’re extremely low, greater than 2 to 1, disapproving of Trump in those first hundred days,” DiCamillo said.

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