Example sentences for: contemporaries

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

  • But you can't compare these guys to their European contemporaries, such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Amedeo Modigliani, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Wassily Kandinsky, or Kasimir Malevich.

  • And his longest relationships have been with contemporaries: Hillary is his age, as is high-school sweetheart Browning.

  • It appears that, as Picasso’s talent developed, he digested the styles of the past and of his contemporaries, proved he could equal them, then forged energetically ahead into the future.

  • But nowadays, so many of my contemporaries and colleagues are going--five at Harvard and MIT in the past months--that I turn to those pages with what Kierkegaard called "the concept of the Dread."

  • Notably, about 90% of the patients were women, which obviously does not reflect the general population, but may not be surprising in this context because more women than men are concerned about weight gain, and are more likely to seek medical care than male contemporaries.


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