Example sentences for: modern-day

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

  • His finger work is impeccable, his phrasing elegant, his stance as swaggering as one could wish, but the sound of his instrument--a fortepiano, an earlier, less powerful version of our modern-day piano--is irreconcilably at odds with his intentions.

  • The territory of Desert covered an area much larger than the modern-day state of Utah: parts of Nevada, California, Arizona, Idoho, Wyoming, and Colorado were all part of Desert at one time.

  • Carey's careful separation of 19 th -century England from modern-day anywhere may be the key to our appreciation of the Victorian world, but it is his portrait of Maggs that allows you to collapse that distance and to really settle into his novel.

  • He's the modern-day impresario of black culture, the Joyce Carol Oates of black studies, producing with daunting regularity.

  • Where he sees these elements as destabilizing and misguided, we've come to understand them as modern-day tribalism--what marketers like to call "affinity groups."


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