Example sentences for: modernity

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

  • 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.

  • 1990s gangsta rap is rhythmically simple and harmonically negligible, 1890s ballads are melodically simple and harmonically negligible, but the effect is the same: Even as the subject matter in each case proclaims its modernity (railroads and telephone on the one hand, guns and crack on the other), in both cases, the music underneath belies it.

  • He appeals to people disoriented by cyclonic change as they confront modernity and globalization.

  • Beginning in 1907, they were already using recognizable art deco forms, but clearly not as signs of revolutionary modernity.

  • Cynicism dissolves with your first taste of the town’s gentle ambience, created by a clever combination of the comforts of sophisticated modernity with the simpler joys of the wilderness at its back door.


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