Example sentences for: contemporary

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

  • The New York Times ' Michael Kimmelman says the exhibit reflects nothing less than the state of contemporary art: derivative and self-conscious.

  • The small but more enterprising Opera Theatre Company does two or three performances a year of short operas by contemporary Irish or baroque composers at various venues.

  • I think one of the problems of contemporary art is that it has lost touch with the big themes --namely, love and nature and death.

  • Sometimes the writing of names on walls is referred to as plaqueasos, or in contemporary terms, “barrio calligraphy.”

  • After the emancipation of blacks, the movement for women’s suffrage gained strength and finally triumphed in 1920, and then in unclear succession came the contemporary efforts toward the equal treatment of homosexuals, “illegitimate” children, the handicapped, and even undocumented aliens.


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