Example sentences for: modernity

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

  • But the New York Times ' Christopher Lehmann-Haupt describes the book as classic Kundera--skeptical of modernity, unpredictable, and reminiscent of his masterpiece, The Unbearable Lightness of Being .

  • As you head east out of town you’ll soon leave the trappings of modernity behind and find yourself on a good road through acres of Bahamian forest.

  • Women have been shaping their bodies to suit shifting ideas of feminine beauty not only for centuries before modernity but ever since.

  • You’ll certainly find a day’s visit to Kurashiki a very welcome change from the relentless modernity of some of the cities nearby.

  • Silvery and immaculate, with hallucinatory depth and detail, the pictures of Western mines and Eastern skyscrapers, cotton fields and battleships, boomtown main streets and metropolitan train stations have a strangely deserted Sunday-morning feel, as if they represented the first day, or perhaps the last, of American modernity.


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