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:

  • The vice president's effort to portray Bradley as a latter-day Newt Gingrich is unconvincing considering that Bradley is frank about his desire to spend a lot of tax dollars expanding the availability of federal health insurance.

  • Chandler's protest against the crude commercialization of the Times has made him "a latter-day hero to many newspaper journalists."

  • Utah was not allowed to enter the Union until long after it had achieved the minimum requirements for statehood (1896) because Americans at the time abhorred the Mormon practice of polygamy (called plural marriage in Latter-day English).

  • Mormons (or Latter-day Saints , as well call ourselves-not out of a sense of spiritual superiority, it is to be hoped, but because of a reference of St. Paul's to the members of the ancient church being called saints) have two basic types of religious buildings: chapels and temples and they are as different as synogogues and temples are in Judaism.

  • Visit the barracks, crime laboratories, and Centennial Museum, which traces Mountie history from the first clashes with gold-rush panhandlers to wartime reconnaissance and latter-day counter-espionage.


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