Example sentences for: contemporaneous

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

  • The fighters were scrambled because of the report that American 11 was heading south, as is clear not just from taped conversations at NEADS but also from taped conversations at FAA centers; contemporaneous logs compiled at NEADS, Continental Region headquarters, and NORAD; and other records.

  • a new avant-garde fashion, contemporaneous with the start of body piercing.

  • Carlson says he has contemporaneous typed notes of the conversation, and that Ledeen used exactly the words Carlson attributed to him.

  • 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.

  • There was a very creepy moment about 20 minutes into this week's installment: The camera cut away from Deborah Mathis, who was holding forth on school uniforms, to a presumably contemporaneous shot of the whole cast.


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