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:

  • 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.

  • Putting Disneyland on Lantau Island can only distract us from the airport itself, which seems to me to be the perfect iteration of a modern-day theme park, with its brilliantly modern design that effortlessly propels travelers to their gates, their luggage, a brand-new rail link to downtown Hong Kong.

  • La Adelita is more than a romantic image to modern-day Chicanas.

  • Five centuries later, Japan’s own Kojiki and Nihon-shoki chronicles describe the creation of the imperial dynasty in the year 660 b.c. : the first emperor, Jimmu (“Divine Warrior”) — great grandson of the Sun Goddess’s grandson — embarked on an expedition of conquest from Kyushu along the Inland Sea coast to the Yamato plain of the Kinki region (near modern-day Nara).

  • 1. She was the sexual aggressor using the snap of her thong as a modern-day replacement for a come-hither look.


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