Example sentences for: contemporaries

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

  • I suspect that someday historians who were not Nixon's contemporaries and didn't feel the emotions of that era will be able to give a more objective ranking--perhaps higher, perhaps lower.

  • But what soon began to distinguish him from a lot of his like-minded contemporaries were a low-key wit and an ability to write memorable roles for women.

  • That this basely erotic occupation that was to our own contemporaries so unsupportable should form the core of the work in question might be thought to constitute a disqualification.

  • Excellent reviews for this doorstop-sized biography on the legendary financier: "a magnificent, insightful study" (Maury Klein, the Wall Street Journal ). Reviewers are impressed by Strouse's extensive research, which turned up a truckload of new details on Morgan's life and, more importantly, by the balanced portrait that she provides of a man whose biographies have to date been colored by vindictive accounts from contemporaries with axes to grind.

  • Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.


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