Example sentences for: latter-day

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

  • Historians and sociologists like to explain it all as a continuation of the feudal spirit of rigidly reinforced social hierarchies, with company presidents as latter-day shoguns and middle management as reincarnated samurai warriors.

  • Field Marshal Göring’s armored Mercedes Benz makes a nice latter-day battle prize.

  • Is everything that comes out of the latter-day study of women and the Holocaust (Culturebox says latter-day because he exempts chroniclers of the ghetto from his criticisms) "execrable," "one of the worst excesses" of Holocaust studies, and "nakedly ideological"?

  • Speaking of Mormon doctrine, the term, used as a general-purpose noun, adjective, and adverb, as an unofficial designation for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its adherents, and comes from The Book of Mormon , a book that Joseph Smith claims to have translated from gold plates goven to him by an angle.

  • Or you might see him as a latter-day Grimm, in whose macabre universe getting your intestines torn out and sketching other children's severed heads are regrettable but quite ordinary parts of life as a little girl.


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