Example sentences for: contemporaneous

How can you use “contemporaneous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The month of August was busy, as revealed by a set of contemporaneous Atta- Binalshibh communications that were recovered after September 11.

  • Contemporaneous documents contradict the claim that they were shared.

  • Taken together, these six contemporaneous witnesses provide far stronger corroboration than has ever been mustered on behalf of Anita Hill.

  • Our rates of saving and investment are staggeringly low, in both historical and contemporaneous contexts.

  • A similar notion surrounds the word till , which many would suggest is a somehow less formal shortening of until , the shortening of which is properly written 'til . As it happens, the original form was till , with until being formed from unto `up to' + till . The citations in the OED , which are rather thin on the ground for early 13th-century (Middle) English, show the two forms to be of virtually contemporaneous origin.


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