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:

  • The collection was amassed from churches all across Greece and Asia Minor (on the western coast of modern-day Turkey).

  • 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).

  • The NYT fronts a story on Canterbury's modern-day Pardoner--whoops, make that Pope John Paul II.

  • 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."

  • It strikes me as a modern-day perversion of ancient Chinese landscape paintings in which people are depicted as miniscule figures at the base of immense mountains and valleys.


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