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:

  • Here is a blurb for the children's cartoon Big Bag : " 'Big Bag' casts itself as a modern-day Aesop by focusing each episode on honesty, cooperation, and other value-added themes."

  • Now it offers the perfect antidote to the stress of modern-day living, and is the ideal place to recharge yourself before another evening of exuberant nightlife back on “mainland” Ibiza.

  • 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).

  • While the comparison between the modern-day "Patriot movement" to which McVeigh belongs and the turn-of-the-century anarchist movement is worth making, the contrasts, rather than similarities, are what stand out.

  • Its hutong tour combines many of the sights in the Back Lakes District with the opportunity to step inside a courtyard house and talk with its modern-day residents.


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