Example sentences for: modern

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

  • The publicity of private hair is a long story; it figures in the willingly shaven heads of ancient priests and modern skinheads, in the punitive shearing of male convicts and female French collaborators, in huge powdered wigs and elaborately extended curls or braids.

  • Book-- What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman , by Danielle Crittenden;

  • Back on the Grand Canal again: Longhena’s exuberant Baroque Ca’ Pesaro is now the town’s Modern Art Gallery, devoted principally to a small but impressive collection of purchases from the Venice Biennale exhibitions.

  • The following year, Castelli gave Johns a one-man exhibition; Alfred Barr, of the Museum of Modern Art, attended, and agreed to purchase four works.

  • The tiara (that is, a woman's ornamental crown of a more or less crescent shape) is not at all modern, but it is definitely both classical and neoclassical.


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